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Public-Supply Water Service Areas Within the Conterminous United States, 2017

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Buchwald, C.A., Houston, N.A., Stewart, J.S., York, B.C., and Valseth, K.J., 2022, Public-supply water service areas within the conterminous United States, 2017, U.S. Geological Survey data release: https://doi.org/10.5066/P9I22Z24.

Summary

This data release describes water service areas (WSA) for community water systems (CWS) within the conterminous United States, representing areas of active service between 2010 and 2020. A WSA is defined by a delineated polygon that contains all customers served by a water system. WSAs are represented by an ArcGIS shapefile. The U.S. Safe Drinking Water Act defines a CWS as a type of public-water system that serves at least 15 service connections used by year-round residents or regularly serves at least 25 year-round residents. Water may be used for several purposes (such as for commercial, industrial, and residential uses) or may be used only for one specific purpose (such as for residential use). This data release includes CWS that [...]

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WSA_v1.zip
“Water service areas and metadata”
117.9 MB application/zip
V1_GU_wWS.zip
“Geographic units used to create water service areas and metadata”
137.22 MB application/zip
DataTables.zip
“zipped folder contains 5 data tables, data dictionary, and metadata”
22.22 KB application/zip

Purpose

The purpose of this data release is to provide a national dataset of public-supply water service areas for the conterminous United States delineated at the community or water system scale, provide comparisons to land use rasters of urban and exurban areas, and comparisons to state and utility provided water service areas. This data release also documents known issues in the current version of the datasets.

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  • National Water Census
  • National Water Use Projects
  • USGS Data Release Products
  • Upper Midwest Water Science Center

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DOI https://www.sciencebase.gov/vocab/category/item/identifier doi:10.5066/P9I22Z24

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