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Remove gravity-fed wells from the well dataset #2

Closed chase-dwelle closed 7 years ago

chase-dwelle commented 7 years ago

Right now, we have "wells" that are actually gravity fed, like a spring or a rainwater harvesting operation, e.g.,

WELL_ID LAT_DD LONG_DD FUNC STATUS COD_FCN COD_QTY COD_RESRCE ADM1 ADM2 ACTIVITY COUNTRY WATERSRC WATERTECH INSTALLED MGMT PAY SOURCE RPT_DATE
486554 -0.12982 34.456458 Yes Functional ( in use) 1 1 0     ksm372 KE Rainwater (harvesting) Gravity 2005 Institutional Management None Virtual Kenya 6/6/12
485707 -0.109488 34.438404 Yes Functional ( in use) 1 1 0     ksm367 KE Rainwater (harvesting) Gravity 2005 Institutional Management None Virtual Kenya 5/6/12
486748 -0.123888 34.548462 Yes Functional ( in use) 1 1 0     ksm296 KE Rainwater (harvesting) Gravity 2008 Institutional Management 2 KES/20L Jerrican Virtual Kenya 25/04/2012
486747 -0.123888 34.548462 Yes Functional ( in use) 1 1 0     ksm296 KE Rainwater (harvesting) Gravity 2008 Institutional Management 2 KES/20L Jerrican Virtual Kenya 25/04/2012

These have no relation to GRACE data (since GRACE is groundwater), and therefore should be removed.

ehaacker commented 7 years ago

We can probably keep the springs. We can think of springs as simply places where the groundwater level intersects with the land surface (so a well with a very small effective depth); they're going to be more vulnerable to depleted groundwater, so may be the first to respond to depletion recorded by GRACE. But rainwater harvesting won't be related to changes in groundwater storage - we could maybe still compare with precip, but shouldn't treat those the same as wells/springs.

chase-dwelle commented 7 years ago

Yep @ehaacker is right. I took the lat/lons of a few of the springs/lake sources and looked at them on Google Maps and it definitely seems like the SOURCE column is the source of the well, and not the type of water source.

We then just need to delete the Rainwater (harvesting) entries.