WATER QUALITY MANAGEMENT AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS

Problems and approaches in developing an information system that will most effectively aid the planners are presented. The analysis of information needs centers around the concept of a system's complexity. A simpler information system has only the function of retrieving data from a data base. STORET, the information retrieval system currently being used by the states' stream pollution control boards, is an example. A much more complex system is one that has the capability of interfacing application programs with the data base, as does GPLAN, the system presented in this paper. River models and simulators are controlled by GPLAN to take its output from a data base and store its output in this same data base for later reference. GPLAN offers an information retrieval language approaching a natural- language syntax and allows the user to command execution of the application programs via the query language.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Presented at the ASCE Specialty Conference on Planning for Water Quality Management, Ithaca, N.Y., June 26-28, 1974.
• Corporate Authors:

  American Society of Civil Engineers

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  New York, NY  United States  10017-2398
• Authors:
  • Haseman, W D
  • Lieberman, A Z
  • Whinston, A B
• Publication Date: 1975-3

Media Info

• Features: Appendices; Figures; References;
• Pagination: p. 477-493
• Serial:
  • Journal of the Hydraulics Division
  • Volume: 101
  • Issue Number: HY3
  • Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Databases; Information retrieval; Information systems; Management information systems; Rivers; Simulation; Streams; Water control; Water pollution; Water quality
• Old TRIS Terms: Stream pollution
• Subject Areas: Highways; Hydraulics and Hydrology;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00096117
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: ASCE 11185 Proc Paper
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 2 1975 12:00AM