GOALS AND OBJECTIVES OF THE WDBIS

Goals and Functions

To provide storage for data and information collected by the KBAC Volunteer Water Quality Monitoring Program (VWQMP), and for other data collected by KBAC and its consultants.
To establish a data base of geographic, tabular, image, and other types of data that can be used to produce maps, reports, newsletters, and other informational documents for use by KBAC in assessing and presenting water quality issues.
To provide access to computing system equipment for use by KBAC members, contractors, students, and volunteers to analyze the various types of water quality data.
To create an Internet web page for wide-spread public access to an organized data base of water quality information to inform and educate the public; to describe actions being taken by KBAC and other agencies; to permit public comment on local water quality conditions; and to provide a method for data to be distributed.

Objectives

To easily discuss the final products, this Strategic Plan identifies three (3) major objectives (or components) that define the WDBIS. Each objective consists of other sub-components required to perform an operation or to create a product that shall be used by KBAC, or in support of their initiatives. The major components identified for the WDBIS are:

Perform Data Collection - The process of collecting information.

Establish Computing, Communication, and Data Management System- Create information system to store, manage, and distribute data.

Enable Information retrieval and use. - Establish accessibility to data for use by KBAC, its consultants and contractors, educators, students, and the community.

Each of these objective shall be described in detail to identify resources and operations required to achieve the objective.