WMIS NextGen

Idaho Department of Water Resources

Concept demo · Not affiliated with the State of Idaho

A modern home for Idaho's water measurement data.

WMIS NextGen is a concept replacement for IDWR's Water Measurement Information System — every diversion on a single map, structured intake from watermasters, automated rollup, and live ArcGIS sync.

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PODs in WMIS

10.8K

real records, ESPA + statewide

Reporting districts

50

GWDs, water districts, irrigation cos.

2024 volume reported

8.43M AF

68% of PODs

15-year coverage

2010–2025

volume, method & quality per year

Live data

Every reported diversion, on one map.

Real WMIS records seeded from IDWR's open ArcGIS feature service. Filter by district, source, or measurement method. No login required for public PODs.

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Built for the people who run Idaho's water

From watermasters to public researchers.

Replace siloed ASP.NET portals, Excel spreadsheets and Microsoft Access databases with one role-aware platform. Persona-switch in the top right to see each role's view.

Watermaster

Submit annual measurements for your district. Bulk wizard, PCC calculator, and reporting calendar.

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IDWR analyst

Review submissions with auto-flagged anomalies, run year-end rollup, push to ArcGIS.

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Compliance officer

Track on-time reporting, generate non-compliance letters, link to curtailment orders.

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Water-right owner

See your PODs, submit your own readings, download confirmation letters.

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GIS data steward

Detect drift between WMIS and ArcGIS layer. One-click publish.

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Public researcher

Look up any POD by WMIS#, metal tag or right ID. Open data, no account needed.

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Method mix · 2024

How Idaho measures.

Real WMIS option-type domain values. The PCC method (Power Consumption Coefficient) is back-calculated from electric bills — today watermasters do this in Excel. WMIS NextGen has it built in.

FM6062
Alternate909
Unused (6)795
Flowmeter (1)761
Waived (5)657

Volume trend · 2010–2024 (acre-feet)

15 years of measurement.

Statewide reported volumes. The 2024 ESPA curtailment order is visible — fewer PODs reported, but higher per-POD intensity for those that did.

2010: 2,621,667 AF · 5269 PODs2011: 5,079,658 AF · 5475 PODs2012: 5,736,424 AF · 5368 PODs2013: 5,326,055 AF · 5484 PODs2014: 5,075,109 AF · 5775 PODs2015: 5,775,292 AF · 5760 PODs2016: 5,247,635 AF · 5983 PODs2017: 5,122,990 AF · 5961 PODs2018: 5,906,559 AF · 6763 PODs2019: 5,979,402 AF · 6895 PODs2020: 6,590,173 AF · 6960 PODs2021: 6,475,744 AF · 7005 PODs2022: 6,293,924 AF · 7199 PODs2023: 5,986,482 AF · 7262 PODs2024: 8,431,236 AF · 7315 PODs'10'11'12'13'14'15'16'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24

FY26–29 strategic plan alignment

What the legacy WMIS can't do — and we can.

IDWR's strategic plan calls out modernizing water-right accounting, replacing Microsoft Access databases with SQL by Dec 2025, and developing basin accounting models. WMIS NextGen is built to that brief.

  • Map-first, not login-first

    Today: ASP.NET login wall. Tomorrow: open Idaho map of all PODs colored by source.

  • PCC calculator built in

    Power-Consumption-Coefficient calc is in Excel today. Built into the submission form here.

  • Auto-flagged anomalies

    Submissions outside 2σ of the 10-year mean are automatically flagged for analyst review.

  • Live ArcGIS sync

    One-click publish replaces the manual GIS-vs-database drift problem.