Oregon Water/Monitoring Wells Standard 1.1amendment

Bob Harmon

Oregon Hydrography Framework

Background Version 1.0 of the standard endorsed

by OGIC in January 2012. Basis for this amendment in

discussions around the Preparedness FIT funding proposal that they were putting together in spring of 2013. Various mechanisms for deriving a

well location were mentioned. Realized that the current standard

didn’t capture that component of a location.

Elements - Required

Water well ID: generated when data submitted to repository (wwID)

Longitude (wwLongitude) Latitude (wwLatitude) Horizontal accuracy assessment

(wwHorizontalAcc) Location method (wwLocationMethod) Well label (tag; wwLabel) Other agency id (wwOtherID) Name of person that created data record (wwUser) Agency that the person represents (wwAgency) Date record created (wwRecordDate)

wwLocationMethod recommended domain “GPS” “imagery” “computed centroid of PLS section” “computed centroid of PLS QQ” “computed centroid of tax lot” “computed from street address” “unknown”

QUESTIONS?

Elements - Optional

Well log id: broken out by the four letter “county code” & log number (unique to the county) (wwLogCounty & wwLogNbr)

“Start card” id: Submitted in advance of well construction by the well constructor to OWRD (wwStartCardNbr)

Well “name”: local or agency reference (wwWellName)

Well owner: original owner's name or company name on the well log (wwOwner)

Address: Property where well located (wwAddress)

Elements – Optional, continued

Tax lot id (ORTaxlot#) (wwTaxlot) Type of use: Primary use of the well (wwTypeofUse) Original completion date (wwCompletionDate) Total depth of the well (wwCompletedDepth) Surface casing diameter (wwCasingDiam) Depth to first water (wwDepth2Water) Static water depth (wwStaticWater) Drilling method (wwDrillingMethod) Land surface elevation

(wwLandSurfaceElevation) Elevation remarks (wwElevationRemarks)