FLORIDA GEOGRAPHIC DATA LIBRARY DOCUMENTATION

TITLE: ADOPTED TOTAL MAXIMUM DAILY LOADS (TMDLS) IN FLORIDA - DECEMBER 2016 

Geodataset Name:       ADOPTED_TMDLS_DEC16
Geodataset Type:       SHAPEFILE
Geodataset Feature:    Polygon
Feature Count:         427
GENERAL DESCRIPTION:
This dataset contains Adopted Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs) in the State of Florida. A Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) is 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 restore the water body so that designated uses are attained. The threshold limits on pollutants in surface waters--Florida's surface water quality standards on which TMDLs are based--are set forth primarily in rules 62-302 and 62-303, Florida Administrative Code (FAC), and the associated table of water quality criteria. What is a WBID? For assessment purposes, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (Department) has divided the State of Florida into water assessment polygons with a unique waterbody identification (WBID) number for each water segment. 1) Dissolved Oxygen (DO) and Nutrient TMDLs include TMDLs for the following impaired parameters Dissolved Oxygen, BOD, Nutrients, and Un-ionized Ammonia. 2) Bacteria TMDLs include TMDLs that are Fecal Coliform impaired. 3) Other TMDLs include TMDLs for pollutants other than Dissolved Oxygen, Nutrients, and Bacteria, such as Iron, Lead, and Turbidity. Planning List Through 2022: TMDLs in process of being developed. Draft: after a TMDL is presented at a Rule Development Workshop, but before it is adopted into rule. State Adopted TMDL: those TMDLs that have been adopted into State Rule (62-304, FAC), but have not been approved by EPA. State Adopted and EPA Approved TMDLs: those TMDLs that have been adopted into State Rule and have been approved by EPA, Region 4. This is an update to the FGDL layer ADOPTED_TMDLS_DEC15.shp 
DATA SOURCE(S):                    Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Watershed Assessment Section
SCALE OF ORIGINAL SOURCE MAPS:     Unknown
GEODATASET EXTENT:                 State of Florida

PUBLICATION DATE:                  20170123
TIME PERIOD OF CONTENT:            Begin Date: 19990101    End Date: 20161215
DOWNLOAD LINK:                     http://www.fgdl.org/metadataexplorer/explorer.jsp

FEATURE ATTRIBUTE TABLES: 

Datafile Name: ADOPTED_TMDLS_DEC16.DBF
ITEM NAME WIDTH TYPE
OBJECTID
4 OID
Shape
4 Geometry
HUC
8 String
WBID
6 String
DISTRICT
3 String
PLANUNIT
40 String
GROUP_NUM
8 String
GROUP_NAME
46 String
WATERBODY_
254 String
BODY
10 String
CLASS
2 String
PARAM_TMDL
254 String
POLLUTANT
254 String
TMDL_STATU
254 String
TMDL_DOC
200 String
DESCRIPT
75 String
FGDLAQDATE
36 Date
AUTOID
4 Integer
SHAPE.AREA
0 Double
SHAPE.LEN
0 Double

FEATURE ATTRIBUTE TABLES CODES AND VALUES:

Item

Item Description





OBJECTID

Internal feature number.
















Shape

Feature geometry.
















HUC

Hydrologic Unit Code.
















WBID

Waterbody Unique Identifier.
















DISTRICT

FDEP District.
















PLANUNIT

Hydrologic collection of WBIDs.
















GROUP_NUM

5 Year Rotating Basin Group Number.
















GROUP_NAME

5 Year Rotating Basin Group Name.
















WATERBODY_

Waterbody Name, previously called BASIN_1.
















BODY

Type of waterbody, i.e. lake, stream, spring, etc
















CLASS

Surface Water Classification.
















PARAM_TMDL

Parameter for which the TMDL is developed.
















POLLUTANT

Pollutant causing the impairment.
















TMDL_STATU

Status of Adoption Process by State of Florida. Phase of development in which the TMDL is in.
















TMDL_DOC

Available TMDL documents for the areas.
















DESCRIPT

FGDL added field based on WATERBODY & WBID.
















FGDLAQDATE

The date FGDL acquired the data from the Source.
















AUTOID

Unique ID added by GeoPlan
















SHAPE.AREA

Area in meters
















SHAPE.LEN

Perimeter in meters




























USER NOTES:








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













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













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

























To provide a spatial distribution of the State of Florida's TMDLs, their status of 
development and the type of parameters addressed in that TMDL.















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















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















This data is intended to be used for general informational and planning purposes. 
This layer is not for legal decision making.

FDEP:
The data set is NOT a survey document and should not be utilized as such.
FDEP GIS data is provided as a public service. FDEP makes every effort to provide
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relating to the use of provided data rest with the user.














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REFERENCES: 






Florida Department of Environmental Protection: 
http://www.dep.state.fl.us/

Watershed Management Basin Rotation Project:
http://www.dep.state.fl.us/water/watersheds/assessment/basin411.htm

Total Maximum Daily Loads Program
http://www.dep.state.fl.us/water/tmdl/index.htm

Final, State Rule 62-304 Florida Administrative Code F.A.C.
https://www.flrules.org/gateway/ChapterHome.asp?Chapter=62-304

FDEP Status of development for each TMDL - Map
http://www.dep.state.fl.us/water/tmdl/docs/TMDL-MapStatus.pdf

US EPA TMDL Web Page
http://www.epa.gov/tmdl









DATA LINEAGE SUMMARY: 








Data Layer Updated as of May 8th 2014
Process Date: 

Removed WBID 3009E, Updated 34 WBIDs from "State Adopted TMDL" 
to "State Adopted TMDL and EPA Approved"
Process Date: 

Data updated with the new TMDLs that have been adopted since 20120120.
Process Date: 20120118


Data set created from the WBID layer attributed with TMDL attributes.
Process Date: 20120118


Added new layer in SDE/DataMiner and MapDirect. Metadata updated.
Process Date: 20120120


Data updated in SDE/DataMiner and MapDirect.
Process Date: 20130122


Dataset updated for October 2013.
Process Date: 20131001


Data updated in ArcSDE/DataMiner. Metadata updated.
Process Date: 20131018


Updated data in SDE/DataMiner. Symbology and metadata updated.
Process Date: 20140512


Updated data obtained from DEAR and updated the same in ArcSDE and DataMiner.
Process Date: 20140626


Symbology updated in DataMiner and MapDirect. Display name changed to Florida TMDLs.
Process Date: 20140722


Updated data obtained from DEAR and updated the same in ArcSDE and DataMiner.
Process Date: 20140804


Updated data obtained from DEAR and updated the same in the FDEP GIS library
Process Date: 20140909


Updated data TMDL status on 13 features, Feature count reduced to 471
Process Date: 20141208


Updated data obtained from DEAR and updated the same in the GIS library.
Process Date: 20141209


Removed 19 features listed under the 2-yr Workplan status
Process Date: 20141223


Updated data obtained from DEAR and updated the same in the GIS library.
Process Date: 20150102


Updated the TMDL_Status of 8 features
Process Date: 20150310


Obtained updated data from DEAR and updated the same in the GIS library.
Process Date: 20150312


Added 2 features (WBID 2754 and 2606B) and updated 8 existing features.
Process Date: 20150427


Updated data obtained from DEAR and updated the same in the GIS library.
Process Date: 20150429


Removed WBID 2994Y and 2997S, Added TMDLs for  2986D, 3009E, 
and 2986E. Updated the Status of TMDL for 14 other features.
Process Date: 20150807


Updated data obtained from DEAR and updated the same in the GIS library.
Process Date: 20150818


Updated data obtained from DEAR and updated the same in the GIS library.
Process Date: 20151006


Updated data obtained from DEAR and updated the same in the GIS library.
Process Date: 20151208


2015 - 2016 TMDLs that were in a 2-Year Workplan were removed 
(aside from 8037c which was upgraded to Under Development). 
WBIDS 3237D, 3023, and 1513F were updated to State Adopted 
and EPA Approved for Fecal Coliform.
Process Date: 20151208


Updated data in the GIS library based on a updated shapefile from DEAR. New field - TMDL_DOCUMENTS added.
Process Date: 20160217


Added a new field containing links to FDEP TMDL documents. No features were added or removed.
Process Date: 20160217


Updated WBIDs 1382, 1389, 1391B, and 1484B  from "Draft" to "State Adopted TMDLs". 

The following changes have been made to the TMDL Status field, 
"State Adopted TMDL" to "State Adopted TMDLs", 
"State Adopted TMDL and EPA Approved" to "State Adopted and EPA Approved TMDLs", 
"Under Development" to "Planning List Through 2022". 

Since the Layer file was based off of the TMDL Status field an updated layer file was provided.

For further information regarding the listing process, please contact:
Kevin ODonnell
Kevin.ODonnell@dep.state.fl.us 
850-245-8469
Process Date: 20161215


GeoPlan downloaded the following datasets from the 
Florida Department of Environmental Protection website on February 3rd, 2017.
http://www.dep.state.fl.us/water/basin411/download.htm

TMDL Assessment Data
01-23-17	Florida Adopted TMDLs ZIP (1.6 MB) (Florida_TMDLs_122016.shp)

The data was downloaded in Shapefile format and was in the following projection: 
Albers, NAD 83, GRS 80.

The original layer, Florida_TMDLs_122016.shp, was renamed to adopted_tmdls_dec16.shp

Next the projection file was redefined from the FDEP Albers projection 
to the FGDL Albers projection.

- A DESCRIPT field was added based on WATERBODY and WBID.
  [WATERBODY] & " [WBID: " & [WBID] & "]"
- FGDLAQDATE was added based on date downloaded from source.
- Deleted Object_ID, Area, and Length fields.
- Upcased all records in the table
Process Date: 20170203









MAP PROJECTION PARAMETERS: 



Projection                          ALBERS
Datum                               HPGN
Units                               METERS
Spheroid                            GRS1980
1st Standard Parallel               24  0  0.000
2nd Standard Parallel               31 30  0.000
Central Meridian                   -84 00  0.000
Latitude of Projection's Origin     24  0  0.000
False Easting (meters)              400000.00000
False Northing (meters)             0.00000




DATA SOURCE CONTACT (S):








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Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) OTIS/GIS Section
FDEP
2600 Blair Stone Rd., MS 6520
Tallahassee, FL
32399-2400



http://www.dep.state.fl.us/water/watersheds/assessment/basin411.htm
GIS.Librarian@dep.state.fl.us
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