CHPS Acceleration Team (CAT) NEWS AND ACTIVITIES (in reverse chronological order)
July 2008
The CAT met in Portland on May 1-2 to clarify and identify responsibilities among all parties. The CHPS project is unique in the sense that its leaders (the CAT) are also future users and visionaries for the operational use of the system. Project planning is thus accomplished from two perspectives: from the system implementers’ perspective (OHD and Deltares); and from the operational users’ perspective. The CAT meeting yielded the first draft of an RFC deployment plan which will dovetail into a master project plan.
As of mid-June Rob Shedd, the Development and Operations Hydrologist (DOH) at Northeast RFC (NERFC), became a CAT member. Deltares will visit NERFC at the end of July to provide a combined Delft-FEWS overview and training session to NERFC staff; OCWWS HSD and an OHD system administrator will visit NERFC at the end of July to configure the NERFC with a sample ("pilot") basin. Rob attended the recent CHPS workshop in Silver Spring but unsuccessfully managed to escape the huge task coming his way.
The NCRFC will no longer participate in the early path-finding transition to CHPS but will be migrated as part of the second phase along with the other non-CAT RFCs. The Pilot installation will remain at NCRFC but no further upgrades are planned. John Halquist will remain a CAT member, representing NOHRSC interests instead of NCRFC’s. John can, of course, provide insight into NCRFC operations when appropriate.
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