Poultry Feeding Operations on the Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia Peninsula from 2016 to 2017

Data release contains two shapefiles related to poultry houses on the Delmarva Peninsula (Delaware, Eastern Shore Maryland and, Eastern Shore Virginia). One dataset is a polygon shapefile representing 6013 poultry houses identified using 2016 and 2017 aerial imagery from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Aerial Imagery Program (NAIP). The second dataset is a point shapefile of inactive houses which displayed similar characteristics to the active houses except were overgrown or in a state of disrepair (in some cases only the building's footprint remains).

Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: CAFO, Chesapeake Bay, Chicken, Delaware, Delmarva, All tags... Eastern shore Maryland, Eastern shore Virginia, Geography, Land Use Change, Maryland, Poultry, Poultry Houses, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Virginia, Water Resources, Wildlife Disease, farming, inlandWaters, Fewer tags

Estimating Loading Above and Below Agricultural Best Management Practices (BMPs) and Combined Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) in the Genesee River Watershed

The current information available for the Genesee River and watershed is insufficient to assess if the Beneficial Use Impairment (BUI) delisting criteria for the Rochester Embayment Area of Concern (AOC) can or have been met. With on-going and future projects that are implementing best practices to control soil erosion and the reduction of nutrients that reach the Rochester Embayment, the river and the watershed, it becomes a necessity to: 1.) collect more frequent Total Suspended Sediment (TSS) data for the Genesee River both within and outside of the AOC; and 2.) to have a study design capable of evaluating the impact/success of the current and proposed GLRI projects in the watershed. This project is envisioned...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: BMP, Best-Management Practices, Best-Management Practices, Best-Management Practices, CAFO, All tags... Climate Change, Climate Change, Climate Impacts, Climate Impacts, Climate impacts, ClimateChange, Contaminants, Organic, Contaminants, Organic, Contaminants, organic, Cooperative Water Program, Ecosystem Health, Ecosystem Health, Genesee River Watershed, Groundwater and Streamflow Information, Groundwater and Streamflow Information, Land Use Effects, Land Use Effects, Land use effects, New York, Rochester AOC, Surface-Water Monitoring, Surface-Water Monitoring, Surface-Water Monitoring, USGS New York Water Science Center, WSC, Water Quality, Water Quality, Water quality, Fewer tags