Source Water Assessment Program
The SWAP program evaluates potential threats to the safety of our water supplies by assessing sources of contamination.

Flooding Response
Maps of water supply sources and FEMA flood zones are used to prioritize water quality testing after flooding.

Web Services
Enterprise level services for address correction and geocoding functions.

Safe Shellfish Harvesting
A GIS Web application communicates closure areas to the public for Biotoxins, Vibriosis and pollution.

Vital Records/Cancer Registry
Quarterly geocoding and assignment of spatial information for analysis and mandatory reporting.

Disease Outbreaks or Citizen Complaints
Geocoding locations for analysis and identifying causes.

Childhood Lead
Geocoding home addresses of children with lead poisoning in relation to known causes.

Health Professional Shortage Areas
Shortages are tracked by Census boundaries and communicated to clinics and health professionals.

J-1 Visa Program
Maps of cities displaying the number and type of providers needed.

Women Infants and Children
Maps communicate where clinics are in relation to retailers and clients. By drawing lines from clinics to clients the maps are also used for fraud detection.

Population Estimates
GIS is used to create a spatial crosswalk between multiple geographies (e.g. county, zip, tract, school district).

Radiation Inspections
Maps are created of license locations and inspection areas. These are then used for efficient routing of inspectors.

Shellfish Commercial Sites
A GIS Web application overlays data including water quality samples for license certification.

Hazardous Waste Sites
A GIS Web application creates standard map output for reporting to CDC and ATSDR.

Swimming Beaches
A GIS Web application allows LHJ’s and DOE to open and close freshwater swimming beaches.

Legislative Tours
Maps of annual bus routes including clinics and hospitals in rural areas.

EMS & Trauma
Maps are used to designate response areas and communicate where equipment is stationed and identify gaps in coverage.

Critical Access Hospitals
Maps with 20 minute drivetimes are used to communicate service areas in rural Washington.

Certificate of Need
Maps of kidney dialysis centers with zip codes and patient counts are used to evaluate the need for new providers.

Emergency Operations Center
Maps of where disasters or other events are located during real events or planning exercises.

Child Immunizations
Maps of school districts with low immunization rates or a large number of exemptions.

Access to Healthcare
Maps are used to communicate shortage areas for elderly care, dentists, OB care, open heart surgery and others.

Mass Vaccination Planning
Maps of Points of Dispensing that calculate population (doses) and communicate distribution of sites for improved coverage.

Onsite Septics
Maps of County parcel ownership with age of homes and septic failures from operation and maintenance inspections that may impact Puget Sound.

Fish Advisories
Maps communicating the locations and species of fresh and saltwater harvest advisories.

Air Ambulance Coverage
Maps show the location and coverage of helicopter services.

Cancer Clusters
Maps for analysis of possible clusters and data input for spatial models.

Farmworkers
Maps of migrant farmworker housing sites that aid in planning and inspections.

Pollution Events
Maps of oil spills and sewage treatment plant discharges in Puget Sound that impact water quality.

Pharmacies
Maps of pharmacies that accept Medicaid and Medicare reimbursements.

Public Health Emergency Preparedness
Maps of planning regions and ports of entry into Washington.

Legislative Districts
Geocoding WIC clients and assigning a legislative district for reporting.

WA Adult Health Survey
Maps of developed residential parcels used by field survey teams to canvas Census block groups effectively.

Geoduck Beds
Identified beds at risk from large vessels(Cruiseships), created an updated GPS waypoint guide.

Map Book
Created for WDFW to use when patrolling shellfish areas looking for illegal harvesting.

Sediment Samples
GPS locations of samples help track pollution sources.

Hospital Acquired Infections
This mapping application communicates hospital specific rates of infections to the public.

Confidential Data
Confidential data is aggregated by various geographies to protect confidentiality.

WNV Tracking
GPS and geocoded locations of dead bird samples help focus field sampling efforts.

Air Emissions
This mapping application communicates the chemicals and amounts of discharges.

Nitrates
These maps were used to identify drinking water sources with higher than expected nitrate levels.

Missile Silos
These maps were used to identify drinking water sources near missile launch sites. These launch sites may contribute to groundwater contaimination.

Washington Tracking Network
Environmental public health tracking is the ongoing collection, integration, analysis, interpretation, and dissemination of data from environmental hazard monitoring, and from human exposure and health effects surveillance.

Cancer Risk
Analysis of cancer risk in South Seattle was performed by OEHA's Site Assessment Section as part of a health consultation, which can be found at http://www.doh.wa.gov/ehp/oehas/publications_pdf/HealthConsults/334165duwaval08.pdf

Human Exposure Assessment
A human exposure assessment was performed of people living near Franklin County 2008 agricultural fields.