Information Services
DPRA provides a variety of information services to help our clients meet their outreach, program management, and data analysis and presentation requirements. DPRA supports our clients’ stakeholder communication and outreach objectives by researching, writing, and publishing newsletters in both paper and HTML e-mail formats. DPRA offers fully integrated services to assist companies and government agencies in re-engineering business processes and implementing these processes in an efficient, distributed fashion using Internet and Intranet technologies.
An important key to providing exceptional information services is understanding the information and its uses to develop and implement systems that provide a needed service for the end-user. DPRA’s vast knowledge of environmental issues and its corresponding government entities has served well to provide the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and other government agencies superior program management support through the use of information technology. DPRA uses Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology to develop and manage geospatial data, as well as develop and deploy desktop and web-based map applications for virtually any business sector. Geospatial databases and the map applications they support provide our customers with powerful tools for communicating geospatial interrelationships, managing and extracting spatially referenced data, and performing sophisticated geospatial analyses designed to further highlight and enhance the depiction and understanding of spatial relationships.
An important key to providing exceptional information services is understanding the information and its uses to develop and implement systems that provide a needed service for the end-user. DPRA’s vast knowledge of environmental issues and its corresponding government entities has served well to provide the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and other government agencies superior program management support through the use of information technology. DPRA uses Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology to develop and manage geospatial data, as well as develop and deploy desktop and web-based map applications for virtually any business sector. Geospatial databases and the map applications they support provide our customers with powerful tools for communicating geospatial interrelationships, managing and extracting spatially referenced data, and performing sophisticated geospatial analyses designed to further highlight and enhance the depiction and understanding of spatial relationships.
Our Experience
- Cleanup News: EPA’s Office of Site Remediation Enforcement (OSRE) was interested in distributing its CleanupNews newsletter to a wider audience, but did not want to significantly increase the production and distribution costs of the publication. DPRA determined that enhancing the current e-mail companion publication to the paper newsletter was the most cost-effective way to achieve OSRE’s objective. DPRA developed the procedures and format for a CleanupNews e-mail in HTML and incorporated the process into the CleanupNews editorial calendar. Within two years, OSRE was able to increase the CleanupNews subscriber base from 5,000 to 20,000 with only a modest addition to contract resources.
- RCRA Information: The EPA Office of Solid Waste (OSW) is responsible for implementing and maintaining the RCRAInfo database which stores RCRA Subtitle C hazardous waste information including handler, permit, corrective action, compliance monitoring and enforcement, and biennial report. DPRA’s support to OSW for the RCRAInfo system includes development of on-line help, designing and implementing national reports, responding to ad-hoc report requests, assuring data quality, and independently testing the RCRAInfo application. DPRA’s strong knowledge of RCRA assists in identifying data anomalies, providing meaningful reports, and developing useful documentation.
- Hazardous Waste Information Network: DPRA developed the Hazardous Waste Information Network (HWIN), a web-based system that allows hazardous waste generators, transporters, and receivers to register their activities with the Ontario Ministry of Environment online and enable users to create and process electronic manifests over the web. Users can also process their manifests using hand held devices with Palm operating system and through IVR based telephony system which uses voice XML to communicate with the server. DPRA designed and developed the specifications for the network, developed the web, handheld, and telephony applications, and set up the hardware and maintained the system. DPRA's experience in designing and developing a US EPA pilot test to study automation options for the hazardous waste manifest business process was an added advantage in designing HWIN.
- Rocky Mountain Arsenal (RMA): DPRA provides maintenance, design and development of all web based services for the Program Management department on site. Listed in the Denver Rocky Mountain News as one of "100 Great Colorado Web Sites."
- Rocky Mountain Arsenal (RMA): Since 1991, DPRA has provided the full gamut of GIS services to RMA in support of on-going environmental restoration efforts at the site. We developed RMA’s GIS database, as well as its chemical analysis environmental database, and continue to maintain, enhance, and integrate these extensive collections of geospatial and environmental data. Based on these databases, DPRA also provides RMA with cartographic design and production services, image processing and integration services, and a wide variety of geospatial analyses and modeling capabilities. All of these functions are packaged into both desktop and web-based map applications designed to provide our RMA clients with powerful, user-friendly tools to view, query, update, analyze, and map geospatial and environmental data.