Windsor and Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission complete WQX Exchange Project

November 30, 2009

LAKE OSWEGO, OR — Windsor has successfully completed a WQX Exchange project for the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission (NWIFC). NWIFC is a consortium of twenty Indian tribes in western Washington whose role is to assist the tribes’ natural resource activities and to provide efficiencies that would not otherwise be realized by the tribes when working independently. As such, the NWIFC applied for and received an Exchange Network Grant to develop a “Super-Node” of sorts which would allow tribes to exchange ambient water quality information amongst themselves as well as directly with the EPA or other partners.

The resulting system allows tribes to participate in a much greater level of data sharing than was previously available. The solution has helped to prove to some of the smaller partners that exchanging data on the Exchange Network does not require a complex or expensive system.

Designed specifically to meet the needs of the commission and its member tribes, this powerful exchange solution allows data providers to package and supply data to identified partners utilizing a number of methods and techniques, depending on the provider’s technical environment, as well as being able to receive data back. All at a fraction of the cost it would take to deploy and test fully functional Nodes in all these locations.

Essentially Tribes and other smaller exchange participants can now cost-effectively participate in the Exchange Network.

For more information about the NWIFC solution please contact Windsor Solutions or talk directly to the NWIFC.