Portsmouth Geographic Information System (GIS)

The Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant (PORTS) GIS has been supporting environmental information needs DOE since 2000. An electronic data warehouse was developed to accommodate all data and serve as a single integrated source of data for the site. Early in 2000, there were over 600,000 records of environmental data accessible on a single GIS workstation with query capabilities. By the end of 2004, the data warehouse contained over one million environmental data records, including all available historical and current analytical results from all environmental media, and aerial photographs, topography, buildings and roads, infrastructure, contaminant plume configurations, and waste characterization. RSI developed two custom-designed, web-based graphic user interfaces to access these data: (1) an analytical/geoscience website for data trending and querying, and (2) a GIS for mapping these data spatially across the site. This allowed users to query and trend the million-record database and map 20 environmental layers, 44 non environmental layers, and 20 regional feature layers, including land ownership and land use, streets, municipalities, parcels, census data, and regional elevation data. RSI is extending the capabilities of the GIS and creating a new information website to facilitate D&D planning and pre-D&D activities at PORTS in support of DOE. This project is an evaluation of existing data for applicability of use in the PORTS GIS to reduce system requirements, eliminate reporting redundancy, and complete system improvements to prepare DOE for implementing cost effective and re schedule driven D&D planning and infrastructure management.