Enhance WestDAAT to support the Upper Colorado River Commission (UCRC) System Conservation Pilot Program (SCPP) Applications with a connection to OpenET (i.e., WestDAAT Applications Tool). By design, this Applications Tool will be scalable westside as it depends on available water rights data and available OpenET estimates across the Western 17 states.
The new Applications Tool needs to have the following features:
Water users such as farmers can submit applications for voluntary, compensated, and temporary water savings based on WestDAAT's water rights + OpenET (consumptive use estimates). OpenET offers satellite-based estimates of historical consumptive water use in agriculture.
Users create an account, and administrators/managers/contractors create accounts to access, review, and approve (or reject) users' applications
Users provide information about their conservation plan. The compensation they want and a justification.
Users either confirm the existing Place of Use field boundary, draw a new field boundary, or upload a new one.
While UCRC states approved eeMetric (one of the OpenET methods), other states may require other ET methods. So we need to support different OpenET models (choose from a drop-down menu). Users may try several boundaries, estimate each boundary's consumptive use, and decide on a final boundary to submit.
Water users review a generated application and submit it to their respective agency (from a drop-down list). Water users get an email confirmation of their submission.
Administrators get email notifications of the submitted application and log in to review it.
Administrators may ask for more information and approve or reject the proposal. In either case, the water user gets an email notification of this decision.
Water users' accounts include a history of their applications.
The administrator's account includes a history of submitted applications per water user.
Administrators' accounts include a list of all applications based on the review status: New, Approved, Rejected, Pending more information.
Data and metadata from the proposed Applications Tool will be stored within the WestDAAT Microsoft Azure database.
Known challenge: Water rights are sometimes held and lumped together in the name of a canal company or a district. A water right or share-holder could be interested in an application which-covers part of the water right. The application process needs to include approval from the canal company or district.
Enhance WestDAAT to support the Upper Colorado River Commission (UCRC) System Conservation Pilot Program (SCPP) Applications with a connection to OpenET (i.e., WestDAAT Applications Tool). By design, this Applications Tool will be scalable westside as it depends on available water rights data and available OpenET estimates across the Western 17 states.
The new Applications Tool needs to have the following features:
Water users such as farmers can submit applications for voluntary, compensated, and temporary water savings based on WestDAAT's water rights + OpenET (consumptive use estimates). OpenET offers satellite-based estimates of historical consumptive water use in agriculture.
Users create an account, and administrators/managers/contractors create accounts to access, review, and approve (or reject) users' applications
Users provide information about their conservation plan. The compensation they want and a justification.
Users either confirm the existing Place of Use field boundary, draw a new field boundary, or upload a new one.
The tool connects with OpenET API and gets estimates for historic consumptive use. OpenET API: https://open-et.github.io/docs/build/html/index.html
While UCRC states approved eeMetric (one of the OpenET methods), other states may require other ET methods. So we need to support different OpenET models (choose from a drop-down menu). Users may try several boundaries, estimate each boundary's consumptive use, and decide on a final boundary to submit.
Water users review a generated application and submit it to their respective agency (from a drop-down list). Water users get an email confirmation of their submission.
Administrators get email notifications of the submitted application and log in to review it.
Administrators may ask for more information and approve or reject the proposal. In either case, the water user gets an email notification of this decision.
Water users' accounts include a history of their applications.
The administrator's account includes a history of submitted applications per water user.
Administrators' accounts include a list of all applications based on the review status: New, Approved, Rejected, Pending more information.
Data and metadata from the proposed Applications Tool will be stored within the WestDAAT Microsoft Azure database.
Known challenge: Water rights are sometimes held and lumped together in the name of a canal company or a district. A water right or share-holder could be interested in an application which-covers part of the water right. The application process needs to include approval from the canal company or district.