VERIFIED IMPAIRED FLORIDA WATERS: RUN 43 - SEPTEMBER 2011

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Identification_Information:

Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator:

Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Watershed Assessment Section

Publication_Date: 20110906

Title: VERIFIED IMPAIRED FLORIDA WATERS: RUN 43 - SEPTEMBER 2011

Edition: Run 43

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: vector digital data

Publication_Information:

Publication_Place: Tallahassee, FL

Publisher:

Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Watershed Assessment Section

Other_Citation_Details: State of Florida

Online_Linkage: <http://www.dep.state.fl.us/water/basin411/download.htm>

Description:

Abstract:

This dataset contains Verified Impaired Waters in the State of Florida. The “verified list” of impaired waters is the list of Florida’s water bodies that fail to attain any of its designated uses and/or meet the minimum criteria for surface waters established in the Surface Water Quality Standards (62-302, F.A.C.) and the Impaired Waters Rule (IWR, 62-303, F.A.C.). The entire state of Florida is divided into five basin groups in which each water body is re-assessed on a rotating basis every five years. If a water body is assessed as impaired a TMDL (Total Maximum Daily Load) must be developed to determine the maximum amount of a pollutant that a water body can receive and remain healthy. This layer includes all the WBIDs (Water body IDs) that have been included on the verified list for any parameter from Group 1, Cycle 1 through Group 4, Cycle 2, excluding WBID/parameter combinations that were verified as impaired in Cycle 1 and subsequently delisted in Cycle 2. If a WBID is impaired for multiple parameters the layer contains overlapping polygons for each parameter. This is an update to the impaired_waters_dec10 layer.

Purpose:

Purpose of this dataset is to spatial representation of the areas for which an impairment in a water feature has been determined.

Supplemental_Information:

For more information or questions regarding the verified list and assessments, please contact Julie Espy (julie.espy@dep.state.fl.us or (850) 245-8416).
For more information or questions regarding TMDLs please contact Jan Mandrup-Poulsen (jan.mandrup-poulsen@dep.state.fl.us or (850) 245-8448).
Watershed Assessment Program Florida’s rivers, streams, lakes, estuaries, and coastal waters are spectacularly beautiful. More than that, they are essential natural resources, supplying the water necessary for aquatic life, both large and microscopic; drinking water; recreation; industry; fishing and shellfish harvesting; and agriculture. Florida's multi-billion tourist industry would vanish if our water resources were irreparably degraded.
Protecting these abundant water resource, restoring them when they become damaged because of unmanaged growth and development, and preserving them for the future is your responsibility and ours.
DEP's Divisions of Water Resource Management and Environmental Assessment and Restoration implement a wide range of programs to protect and restore Florida's surface waters. Tour this website and you will find dozens of different strategies and activities underway to benefit water quality. At the heart of these efforts, particularly in identifying water quality problems and establishing clean-up objectives, is the Watershed Assessment program. <http://dep.state.fl.us/water/watersheds/assessment/index.htm>
Total Maximum Daily Loads Program What is a TMDL?
A scientific determination of the maximum amount of a given pollutant that a surface water can absorb and still meet the water quality standards that protect human health and aquatic life. Water bodies that do not meet water quality standards are identified as "impaired" for the particular pollutants of concern--nutrients, bacteria, mercury, etc.--and TMDLs must be developed, adopted and implemented for those pollutants to reduce pollutants and clean up the water body.
The threshold limits on pollutants in surface waters--Florida's surface water quality standards on which TMDLs are based--are set forth primarily in rule 62-302, Florida Administrative Code, and the associated table of water quality criteria.
What are the basic steps in the TMDL program? How does it work?
Assess the quality of surface waters--are they meeting water quality standards? Determine which waters are impaired--that is, which ones are not meeting water quality standards for a particular pollutant or pollutants. Establish and adopt, by rule, a TMDL for each impaired water for the pollutants of concern--the ones causing the water quality problems. Develop, with extensive local stakeholder input, a Basin Management Action Plan (BMAP) that.... Implement the strategies and actions in the BMAP. Measure the effectiveness of the BMAP, both continuously at the local level and through a formal re-evaluation every five years. Adapt--change the plan and change the actions if things aren't working. Reassess the quality of surface waters continuously.
The Divisions are working on a more comprehensive approach to protecting Florida water quality involving basin-wide assessments and the application of a full range of regulatory and non-regulatory strategies to reduce pollution. The Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) is the heart of this comprehensive approach. <http://dep.state.fl.us/water/tmdl/index.htm>

Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Single_Date/Time:

Calendar_Date: 20110906

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: Impaired Waters

Theme_Keyword: Verified List

Theme_Keyword: Assess

Theme_Keyword: Assessment

Theme_Keyword: Assessed

Theme_Keyword: Impaired

Theme_Keyword: Impairment

Theme_Keyword: Pollutant

Theme_Keyword: TMDL

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: ISO 19115 Topic Category

Theme_Keyword: environment

Place:

Place_Keyword: Florida

Access_Constraints: NONE

Use_Constraints:

Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) Data Disclaimer
** This layer is not intended for legal decision making. **
FDEP GIS data is provided as a public service. FDEP makes every effort to provide accurate and complete data. Metadata is provided for all datasets and no data should be used without first reading and understanding the limitations of the data. The Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) provides NO WARRANTY as to the accuracy of this data or any corresponding attributes or metadata. Data is provided in an “as is” condition, without warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied, including any assurance that the data is fit for a particular purpose. FDEP shall have no liability, in any case, to the use of provided data (including redistribution and reproduction). Full liability, responsibility and consequence relating to the use of provided data rest with the user.

Point_of_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization: FDEP Watershed Assessment Section

Contact_Person: Julie Espy

Contact_Position: Environmental Manager

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical address

Address: 2600 Blair Stone Road - Mail Station 3555

City: Tallahassee

State_or_Province: FL

Postal_Code: 32399-2400

Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: (850) 245-8346

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: Julie.Espy@dep.state.fl.us

Hours_of_Service: 8am-5pm

Native_Data_Set_Environment:

Microsoft Windows XP Version 5.1 (Build 2600) Service Pack 3; ESRI ArcCatalog 9.3.1.4000

Cross_Reference:

Citation_Information:

Other_Citation_Details:

Watershed Assessment Program <http://www.dep.state.fl.us/water/watersheds/assessment/index.htm>
Watershed Management Basin Rotation Project: Basin Downloads <http://www.dep.state.fl.us/water/basin411/download.htm>
Total Maximum Daily Loads Program <http://dep.state.fl.us/water/tmdl/index.htm>

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: online

Source_Citation_Abbreviation: FDEP

Source_Contribution: Spatial and Attribute Information

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

Water body ID layer was attributed with Verified Impaired assessment data from the Watershed Assessment Section to create the Verified Impaired dataset.

Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: FDEP

Process_Date: August 2011

Process_Step:

Process_Description: Metadata Completed and layer uploaded to Basin 411

Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: FDEP

Process_Date: 20110906

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

GeoPlan downloaded the following datasets from the Florida Department of Environmental Protection website on September 7th, 2011. <http://www.dep.state.fl.us/water/basin411/download.htm>
TMDL Assessment Data 09/06/11 Verified Impaired WBIDs (VI_Run43.zip)
The data was downloaded in Shapefile format and was in the following projection: Albers, NAD 83, GRS 80.
The original layer, Run43VI.shp, was renamed to impaired_waters_sep11.shp
Next the projection file was redefined from the FDEP Albers projection to the FGDL Albers projection.
GeoPlan added a SOURCE field for this edition, the original layer names as found above can be located for each feature in this field.
- A DESCRIPT field was added based on BASIN_1. - FGDLAQDATE was added based on date downloaded from source. - Deleted Object_ID, Area, and Length fields. - Upcased all records in the table

Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: GeoPlan

Process_Date: 20110907

Spatial_Data_Organization_Information:

Direct_Spatial_Reference_Method: Vector

Point_and_Vector_Object_Information:

SDTS_Terms_Description:

SDTS_Point_and_Vector_Object_Type: G-polygon

Point_and_Vector_Object_Count: 3113

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:

Planar_Coordinate_Encoding_Method: coordinate pair

Coordinate_Representation:

Abscissa_Resolution: 0.002048

Ordinate_Resolution: 0.002048

Planar_Distance_Units: meters

Geodetic_Model:

Horizontal_Datum_Name: D_North_American_1983_HARN

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: IMPAIRED_WATERS_SEP11

Entity_Type_Definition: IMPAIRED_WATERS_SEP11.DBF

Entity_Type_Definition_Source: FDEP

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: OBJECTID

Attribute_Definition: Internal feature number.

Attribute_Definition_Source: ESRI

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain:

Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: Shape

Attribute_Definition: Feature geometry.

Attribute_Definition_Source: ESRI

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain: Coordinates defining the features.

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: HUC

Attribute_Definition: USGS Hydrologic Unit Code

Attribute_Definition_Source: FDEP

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: WBID

Attribute_Definition: Water Body Identification Number, alpha numeric

Attribute_Definition_Source: FDEP

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: DISTRICT

Attribute_Definition: DEP Regulatory District

Attribute_Definition_Source: FDEP

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: PLANUNIT

Attribute_Definition: Planning Unit Grouping of WBIDs

Attribute_Definition_Source: FDEP

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: GROUP_NUM

Attribute_Definition:

TMDL Rotating Basin Number. Group Number of 5 year rotating program

Attribute_Definition_Source: FDEP

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: GROUP_NAME

Attribute_Definition: TMDL Basin Group Name

Attribute_Definition_Source: FDEP

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: BASIN_1

Attribute_Definition: Waterbody Assessment Unit Name

Attribute_Definition_Source: FDEP

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: BODY

Attribute_Definition: Waterbody type

Attribute_Definition_Source: FDEP

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: CLASS

Attribute_Definition: Surface Water Classification value

Attribute_Definition_Source: FDEP

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: Cycle

Attribute_Definition:

Cycle number. Identifies which iteration of the 5 year cycle the impairement was made.

Attribute_Definition_Source: FDEP

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: OGC_Case_N

Attribute_Definition: Case number generated by EPA

Attribute_Definition_Source: FDEP

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: Parameters

Attribute_Definition: Pollutant for which WBID is listed

Attribute_Definition_Source: FDEP

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: SOURCE

Attribute_Definition:

Original FDEP source dataset name and date from the Basins 411 website.

Attribute_Definition_Source: GeoPlan

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: DESCRIPT

Attribute_Definition: FGDL added field based on BASIN_1.

Attribute_Definition_Source: GeoPlan

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: FGDLAQDATE

Attribute_Definition: The date FGDL 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

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: SHAPE.AREA

Attribute_Definition: Area in meters

Attribute_Definition_Source: GeoPlan

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: SHAPE.LEN

Attribute_Definition: Perimeter in meters

Attribute_Definition_Source: GeoPlan

Distribution_Information:

Distributor:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization: Florida Geographic Data Library (FGDL)

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

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Metadata_Reference_Information:

Metadata_Date: 20111013

Metadata_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization: FDEP Watershed Assessment Section

Contact_Person: Julie Espy

Contact_Position: Environmental Manager

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical address

Address: 2600 Blair Stone Road - Mail Station 3555

City: Tallahassee

State_or_Province: FL

Postal_Code: 32399-2400

Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: (850) 245-8346

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: Julie.Espy@dep.state.fl.us

Hours_of_Service: 8am-5pm

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