FLORIDA GEOGRAPHIC DATA LIBRARY DOCUMENTATION

TITLE: SOUTHWEST FLORIDA WATER MANAGEMENT DISTRICT WELL CONSTRUCTION PERMIT LOCATIONS - OCTOBER 2011

Geodataset Name:       SW_WCP_OCT11
Geodataset Type:       SHAPEFILE
Geodataset Feature:    Point
Feature Count:         671203
GENERAL DESCRIPTION:
Well Construction Permit locations within the District. Many historical sites did not have latitude and longitude stored for their location. For these sites, address matching, quarter STR centroids, STR centroids, or county centroids were used as the location. These sites date back to approximately 1979-1980 with location reliability being strong after January 2007. Prior to January 2007, the previously mentioned methodology was used to place the well sites. Furthermore, the well construction permit requirement for wells under 4" was enforced in earnest after 1990. Therefore, prior to then many domestic wells may have been constructed that did not get permits and are not in this dataset.
DATA SOURCE(S):                    Southwest Florida Water Management District, Mapping and GIS Section
SCALE OF ORIGINAL SOURCE MAPS:     Unknown
GEODATASET EXTENT:                 Southwest Florida Water Management District
PUBLICATION DATE: 20111014 TIME PERIOD OF CONTENT: 20111014 DOWNLOAD LINK: http://www.fgdl.org/metadataexplorer/explorer.jsp

FEATURE ATTRIBUTE TABLES:

Datafile Name: SW_WCP_OCT11.DBF
ITEM NAME WIDTH TYPE
OBJECTID
4 OID
Shape
4 Geometry
WCP_PERMIT
8 Double
WELL_NBR
8 Double
SITE_NAME
50 String
WCP_PERM_1
8 Double
WELL_USE_T
128 String
WELL_CASIN
8 Double
CASING_TO_
8 Double
WELL_DEPTH
8 Double
STATIC_WAT
8 Double
OWNERNAME
64 String
WELL_LOCAT
6 String
WELL_LOC_1
254 String
WELL_LOC_2
32 String
LICENSE_NB
15 String
CONTRACTOR
32 String
WELL_DRILL
50 String
LATITUDE
15 String
LONGITUDE
15 String
UTME
8 Double
UTMN
8 Double
SECTION_ID
8 Double
TOWNSHIP_I
8 Double
RANGE_ID
8 Double
SPFWE
8 Double
SPFWN
8 Double
DCS_FLG
4 Integer
WUP_FLG
4 Integer
LAST_UPDAT
36 Date
GIS_UPDATE
36 Date
SITE_ID
8 Double
WCP_SITES_
109 String
DESCRIPT
52 String
FGDLAQDATE
36 Date
AUTOID
4 Integer

FEATURE ATTRIBUTE TABLES CODES AND VALUES:

Item
Item Description
OBJECTID Internal feature number.

Shape Feature geometry.

WCP_PERMIT Well construction permit number

WELL_NBR The well number. Some locations have more than one well, so this column differentiates between wells.

SITE_NAME Name for the site.

WCP_PERM_1 The status of the well construction permit.
4 = Under Review

5 = Issued

6 = Completed

7 = Denied

8 = Withdrawn


WELL_USE_T A description of what the well is used for.

WELL_CASIN The casing diameter of the well. Measurement in inches.

CASING_TO_ The well depth to the end of the casing. Measurement is in feet.

WELL_DEPTH The total depth of the well. Measurement is in feet.

STATIC_WAT The measured water level for the well. Measurements are in feet.

OWNERNAME Name of the owner of the well.

WELL_LOCAT Street number where the well is located.

WELL_LOC_1 Street name where the well is located.

WELL_LOC_2 The city where the well is located.

LICENSE_NB The District's license number of the contractor who constructed the well.

CONTRACTOR The contractor who constructed the well.

WELL_DRILL A description of the type of method used to drill the well.

LATITUDE The latitude coordinates for the site. The latitude angular distance, in degrees, minutes, and seconds, of a point north or south of the Greenwich meridian. Valid range for the District is approximately 26 46' 00"N to 29 32' 00"N.

LONGITUDE The longitude coordinates for the site. The longitude is the angular distance, in degrees, minutes, and seconds, of a point east or west of the Greenwich meridian. Valid range for the District is approximately 81 18' 00"W to 82 52' 00"W.

UTME The Universal Tranverse Mercator coordinates of the well in the easting direction.

UTMN The Universal Tranverse Mercator coordinates of the well in the northing direction.

SECTION_ID The section (from STR) in which the site is located.

TOWNSHIP_I The township (from STR) in which the site is located.

RANGE_ID The range (from STR) in which the site is located.

SPFWE The Florida state plane west eastng coordinate of the well in feet.

SPFWN The Florida state plane west northing coordinate of the well in feet.

DCS_FLG Flag indicating if the well is also associated with a data collection site.
0 = no DC site

1 = DC site


WUP_FLG Flag indicating if the well is also associated with a water use permit.
0 = no WUP permit

1 = WUP permit


LAST_UPDAT The last date that the WMIS tabular data was edited.

GIS_UPDATE The date the location was edited by the MGIS staff.

SITE_ID The unique site id assigned to a point of interest at the District. This is automatically assigned by the WMIS application.

WCP_SITES_ Web link to water management information system info related to well permit

DESCRIPT FGDL added field based on WELL_USE_T

FGDLAQDATE FGDL added field based on date downloaded from source

AUTOID Unique ID added by GeoPlan


USER NOTES:
The final product was checked against the source material for attribute correctness.  
The Mapping and GIS section of the Southwest Florida Water Management 
District corrected any errors found.
There are no known omissions.
GeoPlan relied on the integrity of the attribute information within
the original data.

This data layer represents the locations of all well construction sites 
permitted within the District, including historical sites. The historical sites 
were obtained from the IBM databases.

No positional accuracy was performed on this data set. Historical sites may 
not be in the correct location due to lack of lat/long in the original IBM tables. 
Locations were given to these sites by either address matching or using the 
centroids of the quarter STR, STR, or county.

This data is provided 'as is' and its vertical positional accuracy
has not been verified by GeoPlan

These data were not collected under the supervision of a licensed 
Professional Surveyor and Mapper. Use of these data requires a 
general understanding of GIS.

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REFERENCES:
Southwest Florida Water Management District:
http://www.swfwmd.state.fl.us/

Well contruction permits:
http://www.swfwmd.state.fl.us/permits/wellconstruction/

SWFWMD History:
http://www.swfwmd.state.fl.us/about/history/

DATA LINEAGE SUMMARY:
A python script was written to create a set of views and tables that are 
joined to create a final table that contains all of the attributes needed for 
the well construction permit feature class. This script runs daily to update 
the table. The desired attributes are Permit number, Contractor ID (license 
number), Owner name, Well Address, Well Diameter, Drilling Method, use 
of well, Latitude, Longitude, STR, Casing depth, Total Depth, and Static 
Water Level. Tables were created from the views to increase the speed 
of updating the final table daily. The relationships between the original 
views are very convoluted and caused the update to be very slow. The 
following is a list of views and corresponding tables created in the script. 
It must occur in this order because some views are dependent on the 
previous table.


View                                  Table
wcp_well_completion_info_v            wcp_well_completion_info_tbl
wcp_str_location_v                    wcp_str_locaiton_tbl
wcp_ownername_v                       wcp_ownername_tbl
wcp_contractor_id_v                   wcp_contractor_id_tbl
wcp_proposed_well_v                   wcp_proposed_well_tbl
wcp_join_well_info_v                  wcp_join_well_info_tbl

Some restrictions to creating the views are: well_casing_type_code_id = 4 
(primary casing), permit_nbr <> 0, relationship_type_code_id = 23 (well construction 
contractor).

Two views are created from the wcp_join_well_info_tbl table where one 
has data where wcp_permit_status_code_id > 5 (issued) and the other 
has wcp_permit_status_code_id < 6 (completed). This was done because 
those wells where wcp_permit_status_code_id < 6, the well and site status 
codes are not desired. These two views are then merged into a single final 
table.

This is done on a daily basis.
Process Date: Not complete

A python script was written to select records found in the sites_edit feature class, where wcp_flg = 1, and create a new feature class, called sites_edit_wcpflg1. The sites_edit feature class is the layer edited by the GIS Regulatory staff. Then another python script creates a spatial view using the sites_edit_wcpflg1 records and the tabular data. The spatial view allows a 1 to many relationship to be viewed. Several records may exist for a single permit and well number depending on status codes and/or other codes. A feature class is then created from the spatial view to increase the speed of drawing and queries. Attribute indexes are added to site_id and wcp_permit_nbr. This is done on a daily basis. Process Date: Not complete
This dataset was received by the GeoPlan Center via ftp on 10/14/2011. The data was originally in shapefile format. When received the data set was in the following projection: NAD_1983_HARN_StatePlane_Florida_West_FIPS_0902_Feet. The data was projected to Albers NAD 83 HARN. This data is updated daily by the Southwest Florida Water Management District. Please see their data downloads page for the most up-to-date data. - Added the field DESCRIPT based on WELL_USE_T - Added the field FGDLAQDATE based on date downloaded from source. - Upcased all text in the attribute table. - Data set was renamed sw_wcp_oct11 from WCP_SITES - Deleted OBJECTID field Process Date: 20111014
MAP PROJECTION PARAMETERS:

Projection                          ALBERS
Datum                               HPGN
Units                               METERS
Spheroid                            GRS1980
1st Standard Parallel               24  0  0.000
2nd Standard Parallel               31 30  0.000
Central Meridian                   -84 00  0.000
Latitude of Projection's Origin     24  0  0.000
False Easting (meters)              400000.00000
False Northing (meters)             0.00000

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Southwest Florida Water Management District
SWFWMD
2379 Broad Street (U.S. 41 South)
Brooksville, FL
34604-6899
(352) 796-7211

http://www.swfwmd.state.fl.us/data/gis/layer_library/category/regulatory info@WaterMatters.org Mapping and GIS Section

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