St. Charles County, Missouri Flood Impact Support System

Background

St. Charles County, bordered by the Missouri River on the south and the Mississippi River on the north, has a long history of severe property damage from flooding.

Objective

The objective of this project was to make available Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology to decision makers in a graphical user interface (GUI) using ArcView. The GIS provided citizen committees with a means to access and effectively analyze management plans that would usually be restricted to technical experts.

Methods

• Contact Federal, State and various other sites for potential GIS data sets.
• Review data set for content and accuracy.
• Establish data on personal computer to run ArcView.
• Demonstrate and display GIS data set for use at county level citizen groups.

Major Findings/Products

• Data sets were generally of very good quality.
• Despite the layers being made available on a PC for public access, there was little interaction with ArcView.
• Produced a series of wall maps (35 inch x 25 inch) generated by ArcInfo depicting county level themes such as infrastructure, hydrology, flood extent, floodways, soils, etc.

Publication

Chris Fulcher, Tony Prato, Steven Vance, and Yan Zhou,. Flood Impact Decision Support System for St. Charles, Missouri USA. Proceedings: 1995 ESRI User Conference Proceedings, Palm Springs, CA, May 22-26, 1995.

Presentation

Chris Fulcher, Tony Prato, Steven Vance, and Yan Zhou,. Flood Impact Decision Support System for St. Charles, Missouri USA. 1995 ESRI User Conference, Palm Springs, CA, May 22-26, 1995.

Investigators: Steve Vance, Chris Fulcher and Yan Z. Barnett

Funding Amount: $44,000

Funding Source: University of Missouri Extension

Project Duration: June 1994 - March 1995