CSP Volunteer Efforts

As part of the Karst Landscapes and Groundwater Susceptibility: A Survey of Crawford County, WI, a study undertaken by the Crawford Stewardship Project with funding from the Save The Hills Alliance, Legion GIS is helping to facilitate three volunteer efforts to use citizen engagement to improve a few GIS datasets. These events are taking the form of three two-hour workshops, open to the public and housed in various locations in Vernon and Crawford Counties.

Below you'll find details about each of these three events, with results and outcomes as they come available.

GIS-Based Sinkhole Survey

Participants: Please begin by reading the instructions and background here, and then click here to access the survey interface. Note that as of Sept. 1st, we are focusing any continuing efforts only on sinks that are >= 5ft deep.

To begin the editing process:

  1. Login (top right corner) with username = guest and password = guest.
  2. In the layers panel, select the layer you want to edit by clicking its title (it will become highlighted). This is a very important step, as it dictates which features you'll be able to edit in the map.
  3. Find the "Edit" button (look left from the Login button), click the dropdown and select "Modify". You are now ready to begin editing points.
To edit points:
  1. Click on a point to open its attribute table.
  2. Click "Edit" in the bottom left corner.
  3. Enter information in the table.
  4. Click "Save" and close the table.

Below is a map that will live update with our progress. The sinks are layered by depth.
green are confirmed
red are not sinkholes
blue are questionable
tan have not yet been checked
black are excluded (fall within 30ft of a road centerline or within a flood zone)

  • BASEMAP
  • SINKS

Well Construction Reports (for wells pre-1989)

After our first 2 hours of effort, we pulled data from 886 of 1,136 WRCs (78%), leaving only 250. More folks pitched in the following day to finish everything up. You can view the full response spreadsheet here, or check out the chart below for a summary of the information we gathered (percentages are out of 1,136).

You can view all the WCRs as we have them laid out below (in groups of 50), to see the interface that the volunteers used. Or, if you want to view or download the raw JPEG or PDF files for these well construction reports, you can find them here.