Geodataset Name:       IMPAIRED_WATERS_JUL18
Geodataset Type:       SHAPEFILE
Geodataset Feature:    Polygon
Feature Count:         1730

DATA SOURCE(S):                    Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Watershed Assessment Section
SCALE OF ORIGINAL SOURCE MAPS:     Varies
GEODATASET EXTENT:                 State of Florida

PUBLICATION DATE:                  20180806
TIME PERIOD OF CONTENT:            Begin Date: 20140428    End Date: 20180726
DOWNLOAD LINK:                     http://www.fgdl.org/metadataexplorer/explorer.jsp

FEATURE ATTRIBUTE TABLES:

Datafile Name: IMPAIRED_WATERS_JUL18.DBF

FEATURE ATTRIBUTE TABLES CODES AND VALUES:

Item	Item Description
OBJECTID	Internal feature number.
Shape	Feature geometry.
WBID	Unique Alpha Numeric Water Body Identification.
CYCLE	Identifies which iteration of the 5 year cycle the impairment was made.
GROUP_NUM	[GROUP_NUMBER] Number of group (1-5) within basin rotation cycle.
OGC_NUMBER	Office of General Counsel Case Number.
GROUP_NAME	Name of group within basin rotation cycle.
PLANUNIT	[Planning_Unit] Planning Unit
ASSESSED_W	[WBID_Assessed] WBID at the time of the assessment.
CURRENT_WB	[WBID_Current] WBID as it may exit after possible edits to data layer.
NAME	[WATERBODY_NAME] Waterbody Name
TYPE	[Waterbody_Type] Type designation of waterbody (BEACH, COASTAL, ESTUARY, LAKE, SPRING, STREAM).
CLASS	[Waterbody_Class] Designated Use Class of Waterbody (Class 1 - Potable Water; Class 2 - Shellfish Propagation or Harvesting; Class 3F/3M - Freshwater/Predominantly Marine for Fish Consumption, Recreation, Propagation and Maintenance of a Healthy, Well-Balanced Population of Fish and Wildlife).
PARAM_1998	[PARAMETER_1998] Parameter (if any) for which the waterbody was listed on the 1998 Consent Decree.
PARAMETERS	[PARAMETER_ASSESSED] Parameter for which the waterbody was assessed to obtain verified listing.
PARAMGROUP	[PARAMETER_GROUP] Parameter group into which the listed parameter falls.
SOURCE	Original FDEP source dataset name and date from the Basins 411 website.
DESCRIPT	FGDL added field based on NAME and CURRENT_WB.
FGDLAQDATE	The date FGDL acquired the data from the Source.
AUTOID	Unique ID added by GeoPlan
SHAPE.AREA	Area in meters
SHAPE.LEN	Perimeter in meters

USER NOTES:

This data is provided 'as is'. GeoPlan relied on the integrity of the original data layer's topology

This data is provided 'as is' by GeoPlan and is complete to our knowledge.

GeoPlan relied on the integrity of the attribute information within the original data.

For more information or questions regarding the verified list and assessments, please contact Kevin O'Donnell (kevin.odonnell@dep.state.fl.us or (850) 245-8469). For more information or questions regarding TMDLs please contact Erin Rasnake (Erin.Rasnake@dep.state.fl.us or (850) 245 - 8338). Watershed Assessment Program Florida's rivers, streams, lakes, estuaries, and coastal waters are spectacularly beautiful. More than that, they are essential natural resources, supplying the water necessary for aquatic life, both large and microscopic; drinking water; recreation; industry; fishing and shellfish harvesting; and agriculture. Florida's multi-billion tourist industry would vanish if our water resources were irreparably degraded. Protecting these abundant water resource, restoring them when they become damaged because of unmanaged growth and development, and preserving them for the future is your responsibility and ours. DEP's Divisions of Water Resource Management and Environmental Assessment and Restoration implement a wide range of programs to protect and restore Florida's surface waters. Tour this website and you will find dozens of different strategies and activities underway to benefit water quality. At the heart of these efforts, particularly in identifying water quality problems and establishing clean-up objectives, is the Watershed Assessment program. Total Maximum Daily Loads Program What is a TMDL? A scientific determination of the maximum amount of a given pollutant that a surface water can absorb and still meet the water quality standards that protect human health and aquatic life. Water bodies that do not meet water quality standards are identified as "impaired" for the particular pollutants of concern--nutrients, bacteria, mercury, etc.--and TMDLs must be developed, adopted and implemented for those pollutants to reduce pollutants and clean up the water body. The threshold limits on pollutants in surface waters--Florida's surface water quality standards on which TMDLs are based--are set forth primarily in rule 62-302, Florida Administrative Code, and the associated table of water quality criteria. What are the basic steps in the TMDL program? How does it work? Assess the quality of surface waters--are they meeting water quality standards? Determine which waters are impaired--that is, which ones are not meeting water quality standards for a particular pollutant or pollutants. Establish and adopt, by rule, a TMDL for each impaired water for the pollutants of concern--the ones causing the water quality problems. Develop, with extensive local stakeholder input, a Basin Management Action Plan (BMAP) that.... Implement the strategies and actions in the BMAP. Measure the effectiveness of the BMAP, both continuously at the local level and through a formal re-evaluation every five years. Adapt--change the plan and change the actions if things aren't working. Reassess the quality of surface waters continuously. The Divisions are working on a more comprehensive approach to protecting Florida water quality involving basin-wide assessments and the application of a full range of regulatory and non-regulatory strategies to reduce pollution. The Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) is the heart of this comprehensive approach.

Purpose of this dataset is to spatial representation of the areas for which an impairment in a water feature has been determined. Coverage includes all the WBIDs (Waterbody IDs - RUN 54) that are currently included on the verified list for any parameter from Group 1, Cycle 1 through Group 5, Cycle 3, excluding WBID/parameter combinations that have subsequently been delisted in a later cycle. If a WBID is listed for multiple parameters the coverage contains overlapping polygons for each parameter. PLEASE NOTE: the verified list is not a list of all waters that do not meet water quality standards.

This data is provided 'as is' and its horizontal positional accuracy has not been verified by GeoPlan

This data is provided 'as is' and its vertical positional accuracy has not been verified by GeoPlan

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REFERENCES:

Florida Department of Environmental Protection Geospatial Open Data http://geodata.dep.state.fl.us/datasets/verified-list-waterbody-ids-wbids Watershed Assessment Program https://floridadep.gov/DEAR/Watershed-Assessment-Section Watershed Management Basin Rotation Project: Basin Downloads https://floridadep.gov/dear/watershed-assessment-section/content/basin-411-0#B411downloads Total Maximum Daily Loads Program https://floridadep.gov/dear/water-quality-evaluation-tmdl/content/total-maximum-daily-loads-tmdl-program

DATA LINEAGE SUMMARY:

ArcToolbox's MAKE QUERY TABLE was used to link (join) the one-to-many records for a standalone spreadsheet to FDEP?s Run 49 WBID layer. Two fields [HUC] and [DISTRICT] have been removed from the schema of previous versions on DataMiner. One new field [Waterbody Type] has been added. Process Date: 20141029 Data created with verified list from the Watershed Assessment Section. WBID Run 52 used to define WBID boundaries. The reduction in the number of verified listings is due to the completion of the Mercury TMDL, All the "Mercury (in fish tissue) listings from Group 1, 2, & 3 have been removed from the verified list. For further information, contact Kevin.ODonnell@dep.state.fl.us 850-245-8469. Process Date: 20170324 Data created with verified list from the Watershed Assessment Section. WBID Run 53 used to define WBID boundaries. The reduction in the number of verified listings is due to the completion of the Mercury TMDL, All the "Mercury (in fish tissue) listings from Group 1, 2, & 3 have been removed from the verified list. For further information, contact Kevin.ODonnell@dep.state.fl.us 850-245-8469. Process Date: 20170802 A single record was removed from the data. For further information, contact Andrew.Morris@dep.state.fl.us, 850-245-8426 Process Date: 20170919 6 records were removed from the data. For further information, contact Andrew.Morris@dep.state.fl.us, 850-245-8426 Process Date: 20171116 Updated data obtained from DEAR and updated the same in the GIS library. Process Date: 20171120 Data created with verified list from the Watershed Assessment Section. WBID Run 54 used to define WBID boundaries. The reduction in the number of verified listings is due to the completion of the TMDLs, waterbodies no longer impaired, revisions to WBID boundaries (resegmentation), flaws in the original analysis, or changes in Water Quality Standards, all the "Mercury (in fish tissue) listings from Group 1, 2, & 3, 4, and 5 have been removed from the verified list. For further information, contact Kevin.ODonnell@dep.state.fl.us 850-245-8469. Process Date: 20180726 Updated data obtained from DEAR and updated the same in the GIS library. Process Date: 20180806 The GeoPlan Center downloaded the Verified List Waterbody Ids (WBIDs) dataset on August 8th, 2018 from the FDEP Data Portal: Florida Department of Environmental Protection Geospatial Open Data: http://geodata.dep.state.fl.us/ http://geodata.dep.state.fl.us/datasets/verified-list-waterbody-ids-wbids Please Note: Data is also available via the FTP website: http://publicfiles.dep.state.fl.us/otis/gis/data/WBIDS_VERIFIED_LIST.zip WBIDS_VERIFIED_LIST.zip WBIDS_VERIFIED_LIST.gdb The GDB layer was exported to shapefile. During the QA/QC process the following tasks were undertaken: - Redefined the dataset's projection from FDEP Albers to FGDL Albers. - Deleted the OBJECTID field. - Uppercased all records in the table. - Added a SOURCE field based on the original layer name. - Restructured the FGDB field names with lengths great than 10, original field names are listed in the beginning of the field description in brackets []. - A DESCRIPT field was added based on NAME and CURRENT_WB. - A FGDLAQDATE field was added based on date downloaded from source. - Renamed file from WBIDS_VERIFIED_LIST to IMPAIRED_WATERS_JUL18. Process Date: 20180808 Dataset copied. Process Date: 20180817

MAP PROJECTION PARAMETERS:

Projection                          ALBERS
Datum                               HPGN
Units                               METERS
Spheroid                            GRS1980
1st Standard Parallel               24  0  0.000
2nd Standard Parallel               31 30  0.000
Central Meridian                   -84 00  0.000
Latitude of Projection's Origin     24  0  0.000
False Easting (meters)              400000.00000
False Northing (meters)             0.00000

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Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP)
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