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Watershed boundaries for study sites of the U.S. Geological Survey Surface Water Trends project

Dates

Publication Date
Start Date
2015-01-01
End Date
2016-06-01

Citation

Falcone, J.A., Baker, N.T., and Price, C.V., 2017, Watershed boundaries for study sites of the U.S. Geological Survey Surface Water Trends project: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F78S4N29.

Summary

This product contains 1,297 watershed boundaries for water quality study sites of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) National Water Quality Program (NWQP) Surface Water Trends project. These include sites where water quality information was collected by both USGS and non-USGS agencies. The data consist of 1,285 boundaries in the conterminous United States, and 12 in Puerto Rico. Twenty-seven percent of boundaries were assembled from other efforts within the USGS which are using the same sites, and 73 percent of boundaries were created new for this project. The data are posted as a single shapefile with separate polygons for each boundary.

Contacts

Point of Contact :
US Geological Survey, NAWQA
Originator :
James A. Falcone, Nancy T. Baker, Curtis V. Price
Metadata Contact :
James Falcone
Publisher :
U.S. Geological Survey
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - Science Base
USGS Mission Area :
Water Resources
SDC Data Owner :
Office of Planning and Programming

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SWTrends_watershed_boundaries.xml
Original FGDC Metadata
View 		32.23 KB application/fgdc+xml
decision_tree_process_for-making_watershed_boundaries.pdf 118.17 KB application/pdf
boundary_sources_summary.xlsx 11.59 KB application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet
xwalk_to_1530sites.txt 214.01 KB text/plain
xwalk_to_1530sites_desc.txt 1.39 KB text/plain
SW-Trends-watershed-bounds-shapefile.zip 158.25 MB application/zip

Purpose

The purpose of this dataset is to provide watershed boundaries for the USGS Surface Water Trends project of the National Water Quality Program (NWQP). They are intended as supportive data for study sites described in Oelsner and others (2017). The goal was to acquire already-published or already-verified boundaries from other programs within the USGS, and to have all boundaries agree with, as completely as possible, the boundaries of the Watershed Boundary Dataset (WBD) (U.S. Department of Agriculture, 2013).

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DOI https://www.sciencebase.gov/vocab/category/item/identifier doi:10.5066/F78S4N29

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