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

Poultry production houses in the Upper Choptank watershed identified using aerial imagery from 1968 to 2018

Dataset contains a polygon shapefile representing poultry houses in the Upper Choptank watershed in Queen Anne's County, Maryland, and Kent County, Delaware.

Tags: Chesapeake Bay, Chicken Houses, Choptank River, Delaware, Delmarva, All tags... Eastern Shore, Ecology, Environmental Health, Land Use Change, Maryland, Poultry Production, Remote Sensing, Soil Sciences, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Water Quality, Water Resources, agricultural sites, coastal zones, farming, nutrient cycling, watershed management, Fewer tags

Water bodies within 500 meters of poultry feeding operations on the Delmarva Peninsula in 2016 and 2017

Data release contains 1710 polygons representing small bodies of water within 500 meters of poultry feeding operations on the Delmarva Peninsula. Ponds were identified using the USDA's National Agriculture Imagery Program's 2016 and 2017 products. Poultry feeding operations were described in location by Soroka and Duren (2020).

Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Avian Influenza, Chesapeake Bay, Chicken, Delaware, Delmarva, All tags... Eastern shore Maryland, Eastern shore Virginia, Ecology, Environmental Health, Hydrology, Land Use Change, Maryland, Ponds, Poultry, Poultry Houses, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Virginia, Water Resources, Waterfowl, Wildlife Biology, Wildlife Disease, Wildlife Disease, farming, inlandWaters, Fewer tags

MODFLOW-NWT model used to assess groundwater availability in the Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain aquifer system from Long Island, New York to North Carolina

A three-dimensional, groundwater flow model was developed with the numerical code MODFLOW-NWT to represent changes in groundwater pumping and aquifer recharge in the Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain aquifer system from Long Island, New York to North Carolina. The model was constructed using existing hydrogeologic and geospatial information to represent the aquifer system geometry, boundaries, and hydraulic properties of the 19 separate regional aquifers and confining units within the aquifer system. The model was calibrated using an inverse modeling parameter-estimation (PEST) technique to conditions from 1986 to 2008, the period for which data are most complete and reliable. The simulation period for this analysis...

Tags: Aquia, Delaware, Delmarva, Groundwater, Groundwater Model, All tags... InlandWaters, Long Island, Lower Chesapeake, MODFLOW-NWT, Magothy, Maryland, Matawan, Monmouth-Mount Laurel, NACP, NSDI, New Jersey, North Carolina, Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain, Piney Point, Potomac-Patapsco, Potomac-Patuxent, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Upper Chesapeake, Virginia, aquifer storage, environment, geoscientificInformation, groundwater availability, groundwater depletion, inlandWaters, usgsgroundwatermodel, Fewer tags