DATABASE DOWNLOAD AND DOCUMENTATION
Since the publication and release of the Reservoir Information System Version II (RESIS-II) application in 2009 (http://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/ds434/ds434.pdf), the following Subcommittee on Sedimentation (SOS; http://acwi.gov/sos/) member organizations – the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Bureau of Reclamation, and U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)– have collaborated on a number of RESSED endeavors, including porting RESSED to the Filemaker Pro database management system, and developing user-friendly data-input and report-production modules. Starting in FY2012, additional Bureau of Reclamation and Corps of Engineers data have been added. The SOS anticipates a pre-FY2014 release of RESSED data that includes all Corps of Engineers and Bureau of Reclamation data entered into RESSED by summer, 2013.
In the meantime, contents of the database as of April 26, 2013, are available in XML and JSON formats by clicking here. These RESSED data are being released in Extensible Markup Language (XML) and JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) formats. The XML version is best suited for incorporation into an existing or new database or queried and excerpted as needed using the XML tool suite (XQuery, XPath, XSLT). Internal to the RESSED project we use the XML format exports in conjunction with an XSLT stylesheet to produce the Form 1787 Reservoir Data Summary reports. The JSON format is more suitable for use with web-based applications or other environments where JavaScript is the scripting language. In conjunction with the data release we are making available the RESSED Data Explorer, a demonstration web application that uses the RESSED JSON file as its data source. The RESSED Data Explorer displays the data from the RESSED JSON file by state, reservoir owner, reservoir purpose, the year (grouped by decade) storage began, the number of surveys made for the reservoir, the year (grouped by decade) of the last survey, and the reservoir capacity. For each of these facets, the number of reservoirs with each classification is given.
For those interested in accessing the 2009 RESSED Microsoft® Access® database, click here. To access the documentation and Microsoft® Access® database for RESSED’s static predecessor, RESIS-II -- which contains results from 6,617 bathymetric and topographic surveys for 1,823 reservoirs, all of which are also included in RESSED –- click here.
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The data you have secured from this database have not received Director's approval and as such are provisional and subject to revision. The data are released on the condition that neither the USGS nor the United States Government may be held liable for any damages resulting from its authorized or unauthorized use.
