FLORIDA GEOGRAPHIC DATA LIBRARY DOCUMENTATION

TITLE: US EPA OFFICE OF WATER (OW): 303(D) LISTED IMPAIRED WATERS IN FLORIDA (AREA) - 2015

Geodataset Name:       USEPA_OW_303D_A_MAY15
Geodataset Type:       File Geodatabase Feature Class (9.3)
Geodataset Feature:    Polygon
Feature Count:         454
GENERAL DESCRIPTION:
This dataset contains the 303(d) Listed Impaired Waters area features in the State of Florida that are monitored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA). The 303(d) Listed Impaired Waters program system provides impaired water data and impaired water features reflecting river segments, lakes, and estuaries designated under Section 303(d) of the Clean Water Act. Each State will establish Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs) for these waters. Note the CWA Section 303(d) list of impaired waters does not represent waters that are impaired but have an EPA-approved TMDL established, impaired waters for which other pollution control mechanisms are in place and expected to attain water quality standards, or waters impaired as a result of pollution and is not caused by a pollutant. Therefore, the "Impaired Waters" layers do not represent all impaired waters reported in a state's Integrated Report, but only the waters comprised of a state's approved 303(d) list. For more information regarding impaired waters refer to EPA's Integrated Reporting Guidance at: http://water.epa.gov/lawsregs/lawsguidance/cwa/tmdl/guidance.cfm. 303(d) waterbodies are coded onto NHDPlus v2.1 flowline and waterbody features to create line, area, and point events. In addition to NHDPlus reach indexed data there may also be custom event data (point, line, or polygon) that are not associated with NHDPlus and are in an EPA standard format that is compatible with EPA's Reach Address Database. These custom features are used to represent locations of 303(d) waterbodies that are not represented well in NHDPlus.
DATA SOURCE(S):                    US Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water
SCALE OF ORIGINAL SOURCE MAPS:     Varies
GEODATASET EXTENT:                 State of Florida
PUBLICATION DATE: 20150501 TIME PERIOD OF CONTENT: 20150501 DOWNLOAD LINK: http://www.fgdl.org/metadataexplorer/explorer.jsp

FEATURE ATTRIBUTE TABLES:

Datafile Name: USEPA_OW_303D_A_MAY15.DBF
ITEM NAME WIDTH TYPE
OBJECTID
4 OID
Shape
4 Geometry
PERMANENT_IDENTIFIER
40 String
EVENTDATE
36 Date
REACHCODE
14 String
REACHSMDATE
36 Date
REACHRESOLUTION
4 Integer
FEATURE_PERMANENT_IDENTIFIER
40 String
FEATURECLASSREF
4 Integer
SOURCE_ORIGINATOR
130 String
SOURCE_DATADESC
100 String
SOURCE_FEATUREID
100 String
FEATUREDETAILURL
255 String
EVENTTYPE
4 Integer
EVENT_AREASQKM
8 Double
GEOGSTATE
2 String
CYCLE_YEAR
4 String
START_DATE
36 Date
END_DATE
36 Date
WBD_HUC12
12 String
WBD_HUC12_PERCENT
8 Double
NHDREACH_CAC
8 Double
VERTICES
4 Integer
ESRI_KEY
255 String
WBD_HUC12_NAME
120 String
DESCRIPT
120 String
FGDLAQDATE
36 Date
AUTOID
4 Integer
SHAPE.AREA
0 Double
SHAPE.LEN
0 Double

FEATURE ATTRIBUTE TABLES CODES AND VALUES:

Item
Item Description
OBJECTID Internal feature number.

Shape Feature geometry.

PERMANENT_IDENTIFIER 40-char GUID value that uniquely identifies the occurrence of each event.

EVENTDATE The date the event was created or updated.

REACHCODE Unique identifier composed of two parts. The first eight digits are the subbasin code defines by FIPS 103, next six digits is a randomly assigned sequential number unique within a Cataloging Unit, length 14.

REACHSMDATE Date that the reach code was assigned.

REACHRESOLUTION Code for source resolution: 1=Local resolution, 2=High resolution, 3=Medium resolution.

FEATURE_PERMANENT_IDENTIFIER 40-char GUID value that uniquely identifies the NHD feature upon which the event is located.

FEATURECLASSREF Domain value indicating the type of NHD feature the event is associated with.

SOURCE_ORIGINATOR The organization responsible for the submission of the data. In most cases this is a state abbreviation.

SOURCE_DATADESC Supplemental data relevant to the event.

SOURCE_FEATUREID Key field linking the event to source program data.

FEATUREDETAILURL Http link leading to online resources with further information about the event.

EVENTTYPE Domain value indicating the program for which the event has been created.

EVENT_AREASQKM Area of areal event record in square kilometers.

GEOGSTATE Abbreviation of US state or state equivalent where the majority of the event is located.

CYCLE_YEAR Cycle year of data

START_DATE Start date of data

END_DATE End date of data

WBD_HUC12 WBD HUC12 subwatershed that most encompasses the NHD feature

WBD_HUC12_PERCENT Percentage of the feature contained within the WBD12 unit

NHDREACH_CAC For reached area events, this value is the coefficient of areal correspondence between the event geometry and its parent NHD reach geometry. A value of 1 indicates the area event geometry is equal to the parent reach geometry. The majority of area events in the RAD are equal to the entire parent reach.

VERTICES Numeric count of individual vertices in the Event feature.

ESRI_KEY ESRI Key.

WBD_HUC12_NAME Name of the WBD HUC12 subwatershed that most encompasses the NHD feature. Derived from FGDL layer: NHDWBD_HUC12_DEC17

DESCRIPT Field added by FGDL based on fields: [WBD_HUC12_NAME] & " [LISTED IMPAIRED WATERS ID: " & [SOURCE_FEATUREID] & "]"

FGDLAQDATE The date FGDL acquired the data from the source.

AUTOID Unique ID added by GeoPlan.

SHAPE.AREA No description

SHAPE.LEN No description


USER NOTES:
USEPA: Tests for integrity have not been performed.
USEPA: Features represented have not been tested for completeness.
GeoPlan relied on the integrity of the attribute information within
the original data.
Procedures Used: State Water Quality Agencies supplied EPAs Office of Water lists
of waters reported under 303(d). These lists contained text which identified the 
locations of individual waters on their list. Many states also submitted GIS 
coverages and/or maps that outlined the spatial extent of their listed waters. These 
base materials were used by EPA to code the spatial extent onto NHDPlus v2.1 
flowline and waterbody features to create events. Using the HEM Indexing tool 
(http://water.epa.gov/scitech/datait/tools/waters/tools/hem.cfm), event tables 
were created by conflating the state's data to NHD reaches and the reaches were 
attributed with the 303(d) identifiers supplied by the states. Revisions: The data 
were sent to each state for review and comment. The format of the reviewed data 
was state dependent; formats consisted of text descriptions or GIS datafiles. 
Related Spatial and Tabular Datasets: EPAs Assessment and TMDL Tracking and 
Implementation System (ATTAINS) contains relevant data that links to this shapefile 
via the WATERs Expert Query Tool. The Source_FeatureID and Cycle_Year fields 
in the geospatial layers can be linked to the listed_water_id and cycle fields in 
ATTAINS. For spatial layers containing all impaired waters (Integrated Reporting 
categories 4a, 4b, 4c and 5, 5m) reference the GIS layer, "305(b) Assessed 
Waters" from EPA's Reach Address Database.

To identify the spatial extent of waters listed under 303(d). These waters can be 
linked to the 303(d) information stored in EPAs Assessment and TMDL Tracking 
and Implementation System (ATTAINS) for query and display via EPAs WATERS 
Expert Query Tool. The Source_FeatureID and Cycle_Year fields in the indexed 
dataset can be linked to the listed_water_id and cycle in EPA's Assessment and 
TMDL Tracking and Implementation System (ATTAINS).

USEPA: See NHDPlus documentation for information on positional accuracy.

USEPA:See NHDPlus documentation for information on positional accuracy.

None.

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information, see the References section and the Data Source Contact
section of this documentation. For more information regarding
scale and accuracy, see our webpage at:
http://geoplan.ufl.edu/education.html

REFERENCES:
US EPA Clip N Ship Application:
https://edg.epa.gov/clipship/

DATA LINEAGE SUMMARY:
Each state sent EPA a marked-up map or existing GIS coverage denoting the 
location and extent of each waterbody. Event tables were created by conflating the
state's data to NHDPlus v2.1 hydrology. Event identifiers were populated with the 
303(d) codes supplied by each states' list.
Process Date: 20150501

National Extract Created Process Date: 20150501
Metadata imported. https://edg.epa.gov/metadata/catalog/search/resource/details.page?uuid=%7B66F27299-6B1B-42BF-8AA0-1127D7646631%7D Process Date: 20180905
GeoPlan Center Process Steps: Downloaded data from the following EPA website on August 16th, 2018. https://edg.epa.gov/clipship/ 1. Select Area: Florida 2. Select Data EPA Office of Water OW 303d Impaired Waters - pts OW 303d Impaired Waters - line OW 303d Impaired Waters - area 3. Select Vector Format: FGDB 4. N/A 5. Select Spatial Reference: WGS84 Downloaded ----------- EPA Office of Water (OW): 303(d) Listed Impaired Waters NHDPlus Indexed Dataset https://edg.epa.gov/metadata/catalog/search/resource/details.page?uuid=%7B66F27299-6B1B-42BF-8AA0-1127D7646631%7D The 303(d) Listed Impaired Waters program system provides impaired water data and impaired water features reflecting river segments, lakes, and estuaries designated under Section 303(d) of the Clean Water Act. Each State will establish Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs) for these waters. https://www.epa.gov/waterdata/waters-geospatial-data-downloads#303dListedImpairedWaters ----------- Reprojected to FGDL Albers using the following transformation: WGS_1984_(ITRF00)_To_NAD_1983 + NAD_1983_To_HARN_Florida ----------- Uppercased all fields except those containing website links. ----------- Added and populated the following fields. [WBD_HUC12_NAME] - Based on FGDL dataset NHDWBD_HUC12_DEC17 [DESCRIPT] - Based on following calculation [WBD_HUC12_NAME] & " [LISTED IMPAIRED WATERS ID: " & [SOURCE_FEATUREID] & "]" [FGDLAQDATE] [AUTOID] ----------- Renamed the datasets to the following: usepa_ow_303d_a_may15 usepa_ow_303d_l_may15 usepa_ow_303d_p_may15 Process Date: 20180816
Dataset copied. Process Date: 20180920
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

DATA SOURCE CONTACT (S):

Name:
Abbr. Name:
Address:


Phone:

Web site:
E-mail:
Contact Person:
         Phone:
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US EPA Headquarters
USEPA
1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW MC 4503T
Washington, DC
20460
202-566-1705

https://edg.epa.gov/clipship/ reid.wendy@epa.gov Office of Water

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