Water Measurement Information System (WMIS)

This layer contains water measuring locations that are contained within the Idaho Department of Water Resources Water Measurement Information System (WMIS), a database system used for entering and storing water measurement data. WMIS can be accessed via https://research.idwr.idaho.gov/apps/WaterManagement/WMIS/PointOfDiversion.aspx. WMIS is limited mainly to ground water and spring diversions in the Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer (ESPA). GPS locations have been collected by Idaho Department of Water Resources staff, contractors or staff working for ground water districts and irrigation districts, and ESPA water measurement district staff. Other locations have been assigned locations based on PLSS descriptions in associated water rights documentation, or have been digitized from aerial imagery. Data have been collected from 1995 through the present. Attribute fields included in the data set include GPS site tag ID number, WMIS Point of Diversion (POD) number (an arbitrary number used in the WMIS database), X and Y locations in the IDTM83 projection, elevation (in feet), the district or organization that measures and reports measurements and annual use to Idaho Department of Water Resources (district names/organizations abbreviated) and the legal point of diversion description associated with the location. The legal description in WMIS is based on the legal description that was given for the diversion in one or more water right records on file at Idaho Department of Water Resources. An annual summary of the volume (acre/feet) diverted is available for each year beginning with 2010 to the most recent past year.