This repository contains the "South Platte and Metro Basin Hydrology" story and all of its associated content. This story provides a summary of South Platte and Metro Basin hydrology in order to provide background for understanding water resources issues in the Basin. The purpose of the story is to provide general context regarding the hydrology of the Basin and to provide links to useful datasets and resources.
The Hydrology story was created with the fullPage.js JavaScript library.
See the story deployed on the Open Water Foundation (OWF)'s website.
The repository contains the following:
analysis/ Folder containing data files from external sources and R scripts used to process the data files
build-util/ Folder containing useful scripts to view, build, and deploy documentation
site/ Folder containing the static website and all of the data in the website
css/ Folder containing CSS (cascading style sheet) files used to style the story
data/ Folder containing data used to create visualizations, such as maps
images/ Folder containing images used within the story
js/ Folder containing JavaScript files used within the story, including copies of third-party libraries and local code
visualizations/ Folder containing CSS, JavaScript and data files used to create many of the hydrograph visualizations in the story
webfonts/ Folder containing fonts used within the story
index.html The landing page (website) for the story
VERSION.txt Text file that provides the date of the last update of the story
.gitattributes Typical Git configuration file for repository attributes, in particular handling of line-ending and binary files
.gitignore Typical Git configuration file to ignore files that should not be committed to the repository
README.md This file; an explanation of repository contents, data files and sources
The table below lists each page of the Hydrology story and the data, if applicable, used to create the visualization within that page. Any
data processing steps are summarized in the README files either in the site/data folder, the site/visualizations folder or the analysis
folder.
| Page Number | Page Name | Data Files | Data Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | South Platte and Metro Basin Hydrology | None | None |
| 2 | Hydrology Concepts - The Hydrologic Cycle | None | None |
| 3 | Hydrology Concepts - Hydrographs | boulder-creek-hydrographs.csv | CDSS HydroBase |
| 4 | Hydrology Concepts - Variability | natural-flows-annual-duration-selectlocations.csv | StateMod Natural Flow time series |
| 5 | Hydrology Concepts - Water Resources System | None | None |
| 6 | North Sterling Irrigation District | irrigated-lands-2015-wdid0100687.geojson | CDSS Division 1 Irrigated Lands 2015 |
| 7 | Hydrology Concepts - Streamgages and Measuring Flows | cdss-mapviewer-active-streamgages.geojson | CDSS Map Viewer |
| 8 | Hydrology Concepts - Diversion Headgates and Measuring Diversions | cdss-structures-ditches-southplatte.geojson, ditch-watersources.csv | CDSS Structures shapefile |
| 9 | Hydrology Concepts - Groundwater and Measuring Water Level and Pumping | None | None |
| 10 | Hydrology Concepts - Return Flows | None | None |
| 11 | Hydrology Concepts - Natural, Regulated and Available Flows | natural-regulated-available-flows-06696000.csv, natural-regulated-available-flows-06764000.csv | StateMod Natural Flow, River Outflow and Available Flow time series |
| 12 | Modeling Concepts - Point Flow Models | None | None |
| 13 | Modeling Concepts - CDSS and StateMod | statemod-node-network.geojson | StateMod SP2016.rin file and CDSS HydroBase |
| 14 | Water Demands - Agriculture | crop-irrigation-requirements.csv | CSU Extension Fact Sheet: Seasonal Water Needs and Opportunities for Limited Irrigation for Colorado Crops |
| 15 | Water Demands - Agriculture | ag-diversion-hydrographs.csv | CDSS HydroBase |
| 16 | Water Demands - Municipalities and Industry | municipal-indoor-outdoor-demand.csv | StateMod Total Demand time series |
| 17 | Water Demands - Environment and Recreation | envr-rec-flows-example.csv | CDSS HydroBase and South Platte BIP Appendix D-2 - Environmental and Recreational Assessment Methodology and Framework |
| 18 | Water Demands - Administering and Managing Demands | None | None |
| 19 | Storage - Snowpack and SNOTEL Stations | None | None |
| 20 | Storage - Reservoirs | reservoirs-initial-storage-examples.csv | StateMod Initial Storage time series |
| 21 | Storage - Groundwater | None | None |
| 22 | Transbasin Diversions | southplatte-transbasin-diversions.geojson, transbasin-diversions-average-annual-diverted.csv | CDSS HydroBase |
| 23 | Drought | None | None |
| 24 | Climate Change | None | None |
| 25 | Hydrology Tools - Source Water Route Framework | CO-DWR-SourceWaterRouteFramework-Division01-20180228-reduced.geojson | CDSS |
| 26 | Hydrology Tools - CDSS SNODAS Tools | None | None |
| 27 | Hydrology Tools - Surface Water Supply Index (SWSI) | None | None |
| 28 | Hydrology Tools - Drought Monitor | None | None |
| 29 | Timeline of Addressing Water Supply Issues in the South Platte Basin | None | None |
| 30 | Summary | None | None |
| 31 | Resources | None | None |
| 32 | Sources | None | None |
The Open Water Foundation has created this story during the South Platte Data Platform project. If you use the repository and have comments, please contact the maintainers and/or use the GitHub issues to provide feedback.
Kristin Swaim (@kswaim, kristin.swaim@openwaterfoundation.org) is the primary maintainer at the Open Water Foundation.
Steve Malers (@smalers, steve.malers@openwaterfoundation.org) is the secondary contact.
None yet, other than OWF staff.