BEACH WATER MONITORING LOCATIONS IN FLORIDA - FEBRUARY 2016

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• Identification_Information
• Data_Quality_Information
• Spatial_Data_Organization_Information
• Spatial_Reference_Information
• Entity_and_Attribute_Information
• Distribution_Information
• Metadata_Reference_Information

Identification_Information:

Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: Florida Department of Health

Publication_Date: 20160201

Title: BEACH WATER MONITORING LOCATIONS IN FLORIDA - FEBRUARY 2016

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: vector digital data

Publication_Information:

Publication_Place: Tallahassee, FL

Publisher: Florida Department of Health

Other_Citation_Details: State of Florida

Online_Linkage:

<http://www.floridahealth.gov/environmental-health/gis/gis-data.html>

Description:

Abstract:

This dataset contains the location of sampling points for the Florida Healthy Beaches Program. The statewide testing program tests for enterococci, which the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has recommended states adopt as a saltwater quality indicator. Enterococci are enteric bacteria that normally inhabit the intestinal tract of humans and animals. The presence of enteric bacteria can be an indication of fecal pollution, which may come from stormwater runoff, pets and wildlife, and human sewage. If they are present in high concentrations in recreational waters and are ingested while swimming or enter the skin through a cut or sore, they may cause human disease, infections or rashes. This is an update to the beachwtr_may11.

Purpose:

The data was created to serve as base information for use in GIS systems for a variety of planning and analytical purposes.

Supplemental_Information:

In 1998, five of Florida's coastal counties began monitoring for enterococci bacteria under a grant-funded pilot program. By the beginning of 2000, 11 Florida counties were participating in the program, which continued through July 2000.
In August 2000, the Beach Water Sampling Program was extended to 30 of Florida's coastal counties through state legislation (Senate Bill 1412 and House Bill 2145) and funding. In addition, sampling under the new program now includes fecal coliform as well as enterococci bacteria. The rationale for selecting these two bacteria for analysis and implications of the sampling results are described below. In August 2002, the beach water sampling program began collecting water samples on a weekly basis with additional funding from U.S. EPA. The most recent results from the current program can be reviewed here: <http://www.floridahealth.gov/environmental-health/beach-water-quality/index.html>

Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Single_Date/Time:

Calendar_Date: 20160201

Currentness_Reference: publication date

Status:

Progress: Complete

Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: As needed

Spatial_Domain:

Bounding_Coordinates:

West_Bounding_Coordinate: -87.429040

East_Bounding_Coordinate: -79.872251

North_Bounding_Coordinate: 30.983191

South_Bounding_Coordinate: 24.492815

Keywords:

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: NONE

Theme_Keyword: Beaches

Theme_Keyword: Sampling

Theme_Keyword: Healthy Beaches

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: NONE

Theme_Keyword: oceans

Theme_Keyword: environment

Access_Constraints: Public Data

Use_Constraints:

Disclaimer: Content provided by the Florida Department of Health presented herein is for informational purposes only. The Department has not screened each individual or organization that appears on this site or that is electronically linked to this site. The appearance of an individual or organization on this site is not intended as or in any manner serves as an endorsement of that individual or organization or any products or services identified on the individual’s or organization’s site. The Department disclaims any and all warranties with regard to the Website and Website information, including without limitation (A) Any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, infringement or title, (B) Any warranty of quality, functionality, operability, use or performance of the Website or Website information, (C) Any warranty of the accuracy completeness or validity of data or information communicated through the Website or included in the Website information, (D) Any warranty of the continuous availability of the Website or Website information, or that the Website or Website information will be uninterrupted or error-free, (E) Any warranty that the Website information or other files or data available for access or downloading will be free of infection, viruses, or other code manifesting harmful, contaminating, or destructive properties, or (F) Any warranties arising from course of dealing, trade usage, trade practice or otherwise. In addition, the Department does not represent or warrant that any defects in the Website or errors in the Website information will be corrected. In addition, the department does not warrant either expressly or by implication any individual, organization, product or service appearing on this site or that is electronically linked to this site. The department strongly urges all users of this site to conduct their own investigation of any individual, organization, product or service appearing on this site or that is electronically linked to this site.

Point_of_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization:

Florida Department of Health, Division of Disease Control and Health Protection

Contact_Person: Joseph North

Contact_Position: GIS Manager

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical address

Address: 4052 Bald Cypress Way

City: Tallahassee

State_or_Province: FL

Postal_Code: 32399

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 850-245-4240

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: AskEH@flhealth.gov

Data_Set_Credit: Florida Department of Health

Native_Data_Set_Environment:

Microsoft Windows Vista Version 6.1 (Build 7601) Service Pack 1; ESRI ArcCatalog 9.3.1.4000

Cross_Reference:

Citation_Information:

Originator: Florida Department of Health

Publication_Date: February, 2016

Title: BEACH WATER MONITORING LOCATIONS IN FLORIDA - FEBRUARY 2016

Publication_Information:

Publication_Place: Tallahassee, FL

Publisher: Florida Department of Health

Other_Citation_Details:

Florida Healthy Beaches Program:
<http://www.floridahealth.gov/environmental-health/beach-water-quality/index.html>

Online_Linkage:

<http://www.floridahealth.gov/environmental-health/gis/gis-data.html>

Data_Quality_Information:

Attribute_Accuracy:

Attribute_Accuracy_Report:

GeoPlan relied on the integrity of the attribute information within the original data.

Logical_Consistency_Report:

This data is provided 'as is'. GeoPlan relied on the integrity of the original data layer's topology

Completeness_Report:

This data is provided 'as is' by GeoPlan and is complete to our knowledge.

Positional_Accuracy:

Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy:

Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy_Report:

This data is provided 'as is' and its horizontal positional accuracy has not been verified by GeoPlan

Vertical_Positional_Accuracy:

Vertical_Positional_Accuracy_Report:

This data is provided 'as is' and its vertical positional accuracy has not been verified by GeoPlan

Lineage:

Source_Information:

Source_Scale_Denominator: Unknown

Type_of_Source_Media:

Source_Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Single_Date/Time:

Calendar_Date: 20160201

Source_Currentness_Reference: publication date

Source_Citation_Abbreviation: FDOH

Source_Contribution: Spatial and Attribute Information

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

GeoPlan took the following steps during the QA/QC Process: - Downloaded the dataset from FDOH on 10/31/2016 using this link: <http://www.floridahealth.gov/environmental-health/gis/gis-data.html> (original dataset in shapefile format and in the WGS 1984 geographic coordinate system). - Dataset projected into the FGDL Albers HPGN projection and renamed. - DESCRIPT field added based on the SPLOCATION field. - FGDLAQDATE field added based on the date dataset was downloaded from source. - The longest record for each field was found and field character lengths were shortened to the appropriate shortest length possible. - Uppercased fields and records in the dataset.

Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: GeoPlan

Process_Date: 20161104

Spatial_Data_Organization_Information:

Direct_Spatial_Reference_Method: Vector

Point_and_Vector_Object_Information:

SDTS_Terms_Description:

SDTS_Point_and_Vector_Object_Type: Entity point

Point_and_Vector_Object_Count: 259

Spatial_Reference_Information:

Horizontal_Coordinate_System_Definition:

Planar:

Map_Projection:

Map_Projection_Name: Albers Conical Equal Area

Albers_Conical_Equal_Area:

Standard_Parallel: 24.000000

Standard_Parallel: 31.500000

Longitude_of_Central_Meridian: -84.000000

Latitude_of_Projection_Origin: 24.000000

False_Easting: 400000.000000

False_Northing: 0.000000

Planar_Coordinate_Information:

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Coordinate_Representation:

Abscissa_Resolution: 0.002048

Ordinate_Resolution: 0.002048

Planar_Distance_Units: meters

Geodetic_Model:

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Ellipsoid_Name: Geodetic Reference System 80

Semi-major_Axis: 6378137.000000

Denominator_of_Flattening_Ratio: 298.257222

Vertical_Coordinate_System_Definition:

Altitude_System_Definition:

Altitude_Resolution: 1.000000

Altitude_Encoding_Method:

Explicit elevation coordinate included with horizontal coordinates

Entity_and_Attribute_Information:

Detailed_Description:

Entity_Type:

Entity_Type_Label: BEACHWTR_FEB16

Entity_Type_Definition: BEACHWTR_FEB16.DBF

Entity_Type_Definition_Source: FDOH

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Attribute_Label: OBJECTID

Attribute_Definition: Internal feature number.

Attribute_Definition_Source: ESRI

Attribute_Domain_Values:

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Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.

Attribute:

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Attribute_Definition: Feature geometry.

Attribute_Definition_Source: Esri

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain: Coordinates defining the features.

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: SPID

Attribute_Definition: Sample ID

Attribute_Definition_Source: Florida Department of Health

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: COUNTY

Attribute_Definition: County Name

Attribute_Definition_Source: Florida Department of Health

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: EPABEACHID

Attribute_Definition: Environmental Protection Agency Beach Sample ID

Attribute_Definition_Source: Florida Department of Health

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: ACTIVE

Attribute_Definition: Undefined by Source

Attribute_Definition_Source: GeoPlan

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: SPLOCATION

Attribute_Definition: Sample Location

Attribute_Definition_Source: Florida Department of Health

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: SPLAT

Attribute_Definition: Sample Latitude

Attribute_Definition_Source: Florida Department of Health

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: SPLONG

Attribute_Definition: Sample Longitude

Attribute_Definition_Source: Florida Department of Health

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: DESCRIPT

Attribute_Definition: GeoPlan added field based on SPLOCATION

Attribute_Definition_Source: GeoPlan

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: FGDLAQDATE

Attribute_Definition: The date GeoPlan acquired the data from the source

Attribute_Definition_Source: GeoPlan

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: AUTOID

Attribute_Definition: Unique ID added by GeoPlan

Attribute_Definition_Source: GeoPlan

Distribution_Information:

Distributor:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization: Florida Geographic Data Library (FGDL)

Contact_Person:

Contact_Position:

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing address

Address: 431 Architecture PO Box 115706

City: Gainesville

State_or_Province: Florida

Postal_Code: 32611-5706

Country: United States

Contact_Voice_Telephone:

Contact_TDD/TTY_Telephone:

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone:

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: Web site: <http://www.fgdl.org>

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: Technical Support: <http://www.fgdl.org/fgdlfeed.html>

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: For FGDL Software: <http://www.fgdl.org/software.html>

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address:

FGDL Frequently Asked Questions: <http://www.fgdl.org/fgdlfaq.html>

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: Mailing list for FGDL: <http://www.fgdl.org/fgdl-l.html>

Hours_of_Service:

Contact_Instructions:

Resource_Description: DOWNLOADABLE DATA

Distribution_Liability:

The Florida Geographic Data Library is a collection of Geospatial Data compiled by the University of Florida GeoPlan Center with support from the Florida Department of Transportation. GIS data available in FGDL is collected from various state, federal, and other agencies (data sources) who are data stewards, producers, or publishers. The data available in FGDL may not be the most current version of the data offered by the data source. University of Florida GeoPlan Center makes no guarantees about the currentness of the data and suggests that data users check with the data source to see if more recent versions of the data exist.
Furthermore, the GIS data available in the FGDL are provided 'as is'. The University of Florida GeoPlan Center makes no warranties, guaranties or representations as to the truth, accuracy or completeness of the data provided by the data sources. The University of Florida GeoPlan Center makes no representations or warranties about the quality or suitability of the materials, either expressly or implied, including but not limited to any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. The University of Florida GeoPlan Center shall not be liable for any damages suffered as a result of using, modifying, contributing or distributing the materials.
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Standard_Order_Process:

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Digital_Transfer_Information:

Transfer_Size: 0.007

Technical_Prerequisites:

This data is intended for use with a Geographic Information Systems or Remote Sensing software package.

Metadata_Reference_Information:

Metadata_Date: 20161230

Metadata_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization: Florida Department of Health, Florida Healthy Beaches Program

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing address

Address: 4052 Bald Cypress Way

City: Tallahassee

State_or_Province: FL

Postal_Code: 32399

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 850-245-4240

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 850-487-0864

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: AskEH@flhealth.gov

Metadata_Standard_Name: FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata

Metadata_Standard_Version: FGDC-STD-001-1998

Metadata_Time_Convention: local time

Metadata_Extensions:

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Profile_Name: ESRI Metadata Profile