National Hydrology Dataset (NHD) Stewardship Assessment

Steward Information

OMB Control Number: 1090­0011 
Expiration Date: June 30, 2015 

1. Interviewer
Name:
State:

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2. Steward's Name

3. Steward's State
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4. Communication Method
j Phone
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j In Person
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j Steward not Contacted
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Other (please specify) 

5. Steward Organization Type
j Association
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j Education
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j Federal
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j Local
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j Private
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j State
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j Tribal
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j Individual
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6. Steward's Primary Focus Area
j National
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j State
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j Regional
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j Local
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j Other (please specify)
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7. Does your agency have a regulatory, research, or management role in regard to water
resources?
c Regulatory
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c Research
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c Management
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c None of the Above
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Comment 

8. Is your agency the geospatial coordinator for your state?

j Yes
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j No
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Comment 

9. Does your agency primarily deal with groundwater, surface water, or both?
c Groundwater
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c Surface Water
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Comment 

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Stewardship status

Agreement status and information about NHD updates with the participants (pre­load information and verify with participants) 

10. Does your agency have a signed NHD Stewardship Agreement?

j Yes
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j No
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j Draft
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Comment 

11. Has your agency received an NHD grant from USGS in the past 5 years?

j Yes
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j No
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Comment 

12. Has your agency received training on NHD Desktop Edit Tools in the past?

j Yes
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j No
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j Not sure
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Other (please specify) 

13. Are you aware of the new (v.6.x) NHD Desktop Edit tools?

j Yes
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j No
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Comment 

14. Has your agency received training on NHD Desktop Edit Tools v.6.x?

j Yes
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j No
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Other (please specify) 

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15. Have you used the new (v.6.x) NHD Desktop Edit tools?

j Yes
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j No
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Comment 

16. Has your agency received general training on using the NHD in the past?

j Yes
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j No
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Other (please specify) 

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Editing status

17. Is your agency actively involved in editing the NHD?

j Yes
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j No
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j In the past, but not currently
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Comment 

18. What determines the frequency of your updates?
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19. Do you have formal sub stewards?

j Yes
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j No
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Comment 

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NHD Committees and Meetings

The NHD program has management, advisory, and technical committees. 

20. Do you participate in any of these committees?

j Yes
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j No
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Comment 

21. Do these committees provide information useful to the stewardship process?

j Yes
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j No
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Comment 

22. Do these committees provide information useful to using the NHD?

j Yes
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j No
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Comment 

23. Do these meetings provide good information useful to the stewardship process?

j Yes
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j No
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j Sometimes
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24. If not, why not?
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NHD Communications and Support

Each month, an NHD Newsletter is sent out to contacts interested in the NHD. 

25. Does the monthly NHD Newsletter provide insightful information that is helpful to state
stewards?

j Yes
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j No
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Other (please specify) 

26. Please indicate how useful the NHD Newsletter is for use of the NHD?
Not useful

Slightly useful

Moderately useful

Very useful

Completely useful

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j
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27. Please indicate how useful the NHD website (nhd.usgs.gov) is for use of the NHD?
Not useful

Slightly useful

Moderately useful

Very useful

Completely useful

j
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j
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j
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j
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j
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28. How would you improve NHD communications?
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29. Do you work regularly with your NHD Point of Contact (POC)?

j Yes
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j No
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Comment 

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Use of the NHD ­ continued

30. Does your agency have any critical applications that rely on the NHD?

j Yes
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j No
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31. For your agency's first application that relies on the NHD, please indicate each
characteristic for which the NHD meets the needs of the application.
c Positional Accuracy
d
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c Currency
d
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c Topology
d
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c Scale
d
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c Feature content
d
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Application Name 

32. For your agency's second application that relies on the NHD, please indicate each
characteristic for which the NHD meets the needs of the application.
c Positional Accuracy
d
e
f
g
c Currency
d
e
f
g

c Topology
d
e
f
g
c Scale
d
e
f
g

c Feature content
d
e
f
g

Application Name 

33. For your agency's third application that relies on the NHD, please indicate each
characteristic for which the NHD meets the needs of the application.
c Positional Accuracy
d
e
f
g
c Currency
d
e
f
g

c Topology
d
e
f
g
c Scale
d
e
f
g

c Feature content
d
e
f
g

Application Name 

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34. Is the present quality of the NHD a barrier to stewardship?

j Yes
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j No
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Comment 

35. What changes to the NHD would improve the data for these applications?
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36. Does the current NHD data model meet your application needs?

j Yes
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j No
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Comment 

37. What changes to the NHD data model would improve the NHD for these applications?
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38. What agencies in your state use the NHD for their business applications? Please
provide the agency name and a brief description of the application (for example Water
Rights Management, or Fisheries Management, or Water­quality Reporting).
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39. Are you aware of other applications where the NHD could be used, but is not
currently? If yes, please briefly describe them.

j Yes
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j No
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If yes, please describe 

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40. Do you know why the NHD is not being used?

j Yes
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j No
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If yes, please describe 

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41. How would you describe your relationship with agencies that use the NHD?
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42. What would you change about the NHD to make it more useful to your agency's
applications?
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Use of the NHD ­ continued

43. For each type of application listed, using the pull down boxes please indicate if that
data quality characteristic is very important, somewhat important, or not important to the
application?
If you know of other applications in your state/territory, please list those at the end of the
table.
Currency

Consistency

Feature Richness

Attribute Richness

Water­quality Reporting

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Water­quality Modeling

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Fisheries Management

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Flooding and Emergency 

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Rainfall/Runoff Modeling

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Water­Rights Management

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Streamflow Modeling

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Discharge/Withdrawal 

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Management

Permitting
Water Resources 
Management
Other (please specify) 

44. How important is each characteristic of data quality to the application listed?
If you know of other applications in your state/territory, please identify those at the end of
the table.
Very important

Somewhat important

Not important

Water­quality Reporting

c
d
e
f
g

c
d
e
f
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c
d
e
f
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Water­quality Modeling

c
d
e
f
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c
d
e
f
g

c
d
e
f
g

Fisheries Management

c
d
e
f
g

c
d
e
f
g

c
d
e
f
g

Flooding and Emergency 

c
d
e
f
g

c
d
e
f
g

c
d
e
f
g

Rainfall/Runoff Modeling

c
d
e
f
g

c
d
e
f
g

c
d
e
f
g

Water­Rights Management

c
d
e
f
g

c
d
e
f
g

c
d
e
f
g

Streamflow Modeling

c
d
e
f
g

c
d
e
f
g

c
d
e
f
g

Discharge/Withdrawal 

c
d
e
f
g

c
d
e
f
g

c
d
e
f
g

c
d
e
f
g

c
d
e
f
g

c
d
e
f
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Management

Permitting
Water Resources 
Management
Other (please specify) 

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Support for Stewardship

45. Describe the value of NHD stewardship to your agency.
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46. Approximately what level of effort (FTE) does your agency devote to NHD
stewardship?
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47. Do other agencies (Federal/State/Local) contribute staff, funding, or edits to your
stewardship?

j Yes
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j No
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If Yes, please list the agency and type of contribution (funds, staff, edits) 

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48. In your agency currently, rate the significance of each of the following obstacles to
stewardship.
Not an obstacle

Slight obstacle

Moderate obstacle

Major obstacle

Lack of funding

j
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j
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j
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Lack of staff (assuming 

j
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j
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j
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Lack of Knowledge/training

j
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j
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j
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Lack of Interest in 

j
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funding was present)
Complexity of the NHD Edit 
tools

Stewardship
Lack of interest in the NHD
Other (please specify) 

49. What could the USGS change to better facilitate NHD Stewardship?
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50. How would you improve the NHD Edit Tools?
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51. How would you improve NHD Stewardship training?
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Other thoughts

52. If you could change any one aspect of the NHD program, what would it be?
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53. If you could change anything about NHD stewardship, what would it be?
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54. Is there anything else you would like to convey about the NHD or the Stewardship
model that we've missed?
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