River Data Management System

Overview

While many hydroelectric projects reside in remote locations, they must still meet regulatory compliance and conservation goals. These goals require the collection and thorough understanding of fish passage data. To inform decision making and better understand their data, an Oregon hydroelectric project determined a need for a cloud-based data management system. In particular, the system would help monitor juvenile survival, adult stock assessment, hatchery management, and operational modifications. Due to the importance of monitoring fish passage, the system would need to include user interfaces for entering adult counts of multiple species, origin, and age classes.

Our Role

Four Peaks staff originally developed and currently provide maintenance and hosting services for this cloud-based data management system for automated management, quality control, and reporting of fisheries data generated. Our staff worked closely with our client’s fisheries scientists to establish data communications between remote data collection locations and the cloud-based system to transfer data. The goal was to automate key quality control and reporting tasks to ensure they accurately meet their regulatory reporting obligations. We migrated nearly 60 years of historical fisheries data from the legacy data system, enabling our client’s scientists to harness the power of historical observations in the data analytics tools provided by the new data management system. This structured and transparent approach to data management brought the following benefits to our client:

• Improved statistical accuracy and stakeholder confidence
• Provides efficiencies such as reduced staff effort and timely reporting
• Allowed for documented and systematic workflow processes that enable tracking and reproducibility.