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The following tables summarize survey responses received by GWIC during October 2004.

To view the responses for an individual customer group, click on their hyperlinked customer type. To redisplay all groups, click Show All.

Economic benefit is calculated using 2004 monthly average of 4,200 sessions per month. (2002 survey used the average figure of 3,100 session per month)



Customer Types
Customer Type Surveys % Chart
Commercial 0 0 %  
Consultant 29 100 %
Driller 0 0 %  
Education (Student) 0 0 %  
Education (Teacher) 0 0 %  
Government (County) 0 0 %  
Government (State) 0 0 %  
Government (Federal) 0 0 %  
Industrial 0 0 %  
NRIS 0 0 %  
Public/Landowner 0 0 %  
Realtor 0 0 %  
Surveyor 0 0 %  
Other 0 0 %  
Show All 29 100%  

 

1. In the past year how often have you used the GWIC website?
Response Chart Count %
1-4 times 3 10.71%
Monthly 10 35.71%
Weekly 10 35.71%
2-4 times a week 5 17.86%
Daily   0 0.00%
Total Responses   28 100.00%
Did Not Respond   1  

2. How often does the website meet your needs?
Response Chart Count %
None of the time   0 0.00%
Some of the time   0 0.00%
Average 1 3.57%
Often 20 71.43%
Always 7 25.00%
Total Responses   28 100.00%
Did Not Respond   1  

3. How easy is the website to use?
Response Chart Count %
Very Hard   0 0.00%
Medium Hard   0 0.00%
Medium Easy 14 50.00%
Very Easy 14 50.00%
Total Responses   28 100.00%
Did Not Respond   1  

4. How do you value our website service?
Response Chart Count %
No value   0 0.00%
Little value   0 0.00%
Moderate value 1 3.57%
Significant value 12 42.86%
Critical value 15 53.57%
Total Responses   28 100.00%
Did Not Respond   1  

5. How would the loss of GWIC service impact you?
Response Chart Count %
No impact   0 0.00%
Little impact   0 0.00%
Moderate impact 4 14.29%
Significant impact 11 39.29%
Critical impact 13 46.43%
Total Responses   28 100.00%
Did Not Respond   1  

6. How important is is that GWIC contains current data?
Response Chart Count %
No importance   0 0.00%
Little importance   0 0.00%
Moderate importance 3 10.71%
Significant importance 15 53.57%
Critical importance 10 35.71%
Total Responses   28 100.00%
Did Not Respond   1  

7. How useful are GWIC data in determing drilling depths?
Response Chart Count %
Never   0 0.00%
Rarely   0 0.00%
Generally 5 21.74%
Often 15 65.22%
Always 3 13.04%
Total Responses   23 100.00%
Did Not Respond   6  

8. How useful are GWIC data in completing property sales?
Response Chart Count %
Never   0 0.00%
Rarely 3 42.86%
Generally 2 28.57%
Often 2 28.57%
Always   0 0.00%
Total Responses   7 100.00%
Did Not Respond   22  

9. How useful are GWIC data in dealing with land subdivision issues?
Response Chart Count %
Never   0 0.00%
Rarely   0 0.00%
Generally 1 4.35%
Often 12 52.17%
Always 10 43.48%
Total Responses   23 100.00%
Did Not Respond   6  

10. How useful are GWIC data in completing your ground-water research?
Response Chart Count %
Never   0 0.00%
Rarely   0 0.00%
Generally 6 24.00%
Often 8 32.00%
Always 11 44.00%
Total Responses   25 100.00%
Did Not Respond   4  

11. If you make ground-water management decisions, how often does access to GWIC improve your decision making?
Response Chart Count %
Never   0 0.00%
Rarely   0 0.00%
Generally 2 18.18%
Often 6 54.55%
Always 3 27.27%
Total Responses   11 100.00%
Did Not Respond   18  

12. If you make ground-water development decisions, how often does access to GWIC improve your decision making?
Response Chart Count %
Never   0 0.00%
Rarely   0 0.00%
Generally 3 15.79%
Often 11 57.89%
Always 5 26.32%
Total Responses   19 100.00%
Did Not Respond   10  

13. If you make ground-water protection decisions, how often does access to GWIC improve your decision making?
Response Chart Count %
Never   0 0.00%
Rarely   0 0.00%
Generally 1 7.69%
Often 7 53.85%
Always 5 38.46%
Total Responses   13 100.00%
Did Not Respond   16  

14. Does internet access to GWIC data save you money?
Response Chart Count %
Never   0 0.00%
Rarely   0 0.00%
Generally 3 10.71%
Often 6 21.43%
Always 19 67.86%
Total Responses   28 100.00%
Did Not Respond   1  

15. Is access to GWIC data worth the cost to the taxpayer to provide it?
Response Chart Count %
Never   0 0.00%
Rarely   0 0.00%
Generally   0 0.00%
Often 5 20.00%
Always 20 80.00%
Total Responses   25 100.00%
Did Not Respond   4  

16. Each time you login, access to GWIC provides an economic benefit of...?
* ($ 163.25 / session )
Response Chart Count %
Less than $10 2 10.00%
Between $10 and $100 11 55.00%
Between $101 and $400 5 25.00%
Between $401 and $1000 2 10.00%
Greater than $1000   0 0.00%
Total Responses   20 100.00%
Did Not Respond   9  

* Economic benefit is calculated using a weighted average of responses given. Values assigned per catagory are: (<$10) = $5; ($10-$100) = $55; ($101-$400) = $250; ($401-$1000) = $700; (>$1000) = $1100.


17. How often do the Ground-Water Characterization Program and MBMG Projects data reports meet your needs?
Response Chart Count %
I do not use it   0 0.00%
Rarely meets 2 10.53%
Generally meets 4 21.05%
Often meets 11 57.89%
Always meets 2 10.53%
Total Responses   19 100.00%
Did Not Respond   10  

18. How often do the Ground-Water Characterization maps meet your needs?
Response Chart Count %
I do not use it   0 0.00%
Rarely meets 1 6.25%
Generally meets 3 18.75%
Often meets 10 62.50%
Always meets 2 12.50%
Total Responses   16 100.00%
Did Not Respond   13  

 

Comments

  • It would be very helpful if the well drillers would give more complete information as to the well location such as the lot # and subdivision name. In populated areas it is often difficult to determine the well location, because the name on the well log is a contractor/builder or the original owner.
  • Please always inlcude the well elevation in the basic search and Excel-formatted out put whenever do mutiple-section or multiple well searches. Going back to the individual well summary or reports is very-very time consuming.
  • would like to get the DNRC/water right information/well logs on this site, there may be some data that the MBMG site does not include.
  • I don't know the cost to the taxpayer or economic benefit per login, thus, no comment.
  • Very valuable resource. Please continue to fund.
  • The website saves me both time and money in my work.
  • The more infromation on the web the better for resouce consulting.... keep it up. Not sure how to answer some of the questions however. economic value to me (thid question from the end) is probably in the 10 -$100 range if that is what is being asked. I have not had great luck in finding some of the map work I would like to see ... but I think this is me. thanks!
  • This is an excellent site! I don't know how I would accumulate the data without this site or spending a lot of money and time (which I never have enough of). If the purpose of this survey is to determine whether to continue with the site or not, my vote is an unequivical YES -- KEEP IT!
  • This is one of my most used data resources. Having this data on line is critical to me and saves me hours driving to retrieve it in conventional (paper) form. My vote to keep GWIC ON LINE!!!!

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