Case Study: Pierce County improves watershed data management and public outreach with KISTERS WISKI

Continuous and discrete stream monitoring data and healthy watershed report cards educate the public

Pierce County, a utility in Washington's Puget Sound region, faced challenges with its legacy water data systems. These aging, unsupported systems could not automatically migrate, verify, or make multidisciplinary water quality and hydrologic data easily accessible, hindering efforts to maintain public safety, meet regulations, and support public outreach. To address this, they turned to vendor KISTERS and its Water Information Systems (WISKI) solution.

The WISKI implementation from KISTERS automated data import and quality checks, integrated with the county's GIS infrastructure, and provided tools for advanced analysis using scripts like Python and R. This empowered county personnel to make more scientific, data-driven decisions. The solution significantly regional ecosystem health efforts.

Pierce County