b'FROM DATA SILOS TO WATERSHED-WIDE CONFIDENCEHow Miami Conservancy District Turned a Century-Old Legacy into Real-Time Water IntelligenceYou Cant Protect What You Cant See,The Turning Point: Managing Especially in a Flood Watersheds, Not WorkaroundsWhen public safety depends on water data, theres no room forAfter consulting with peer agencies and reviewing success stories guesswork. Yet many water management agencies still rely onfrom across the country, MCD selected Aquarius. The platforms spreadsheets, siloed databases, or outdated IT systems that hide thereal-time dashboards, public-facing Water Data Portal, and very insights needed to protect lives. Its a hidden vulnerability, until aalignment with USGS and NOAA standards made it a natural fit.crisis makes it visible.For the Miami Conservancy District (MCD), tasked with protecting over 1 million people in Ohios Miami RiverThe web portal was a really important watershed,this wasnt theoretical. Their flood protection legacy began after the catastrophic 1913 flood, but their data infrastructurefeature for us, as it would improve data hadnt kept pace with modern demands. accessibility and relieve us from IT overhead.The Challenge: When Lives Depend MIKE EKBERG, HYDROGEOLOGISTon Data, Inaccessibility Isnt an OptionHydrogeologist Mike Ekberg, who joined MCD in 2000, sawWhat once required weeks of manual analysis could now be firsthand how disjointed systems, from handwritten logs to ad hocviewed instantly, from groundwater trends to levee capacity, all in SQL databases, created inefficiencies and risk. Critical data livedone place.across multiple platforms, and when new IT staff arrived, priorities shifted, breaking consistency. We ended up with a hodgepodge of data tools that were not really cohesive, which ultimately became the main driver for us to search for a new paradigm, Mike explained.Requests for public data required manual responses. Even internal users had limited access to quality-assured information.'