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Impaired Water Quality 303(d) Waterbody Polygons, California, 2016, California State Water Resources Control Board

Metadata Updated: October 14, 2024

This layer includes 303 features indicating all assessed polygonal water bodies for the combined 2014 and 2016 Integrated Report. Under Section 303(d) of the Clean Water Act, states, territories and authorized tribes are required to develop a list of water quality limited segments. These waters on the list do not meet water quality standards, even after point sources of pollution have installed the minimum required levels of pollution control technology. The Clean Water Act requires that these jurisdictions establish priority rankings for water on the lists and develop action plans, called as Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDL), to improve water quality. Every two years, the California State Water Resources Control Board submits a report on the State's water quality to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency pursuant to Section 305(b) of the federal Clean Water Act. The Report provides water quality information to the general public and serves as the basis for U.S. EPA 's National Water Quality Inventory Report to Congress. This dataset is a compilation of all polygonal water body features in California assessed under Sections 303(d) and 305(b) of the Clean Water Act for the combined 2014 and 2016 Integrated Report listing cycle. Each water body is assigned a unique Water Body ID (WBID) number as well as selected associated information (water body name, Regional Water Quality Control Board number, etc.).

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Dates

Metadata Date August 19, 2022
Metadata Created Date October 14, 2024
Metadata Updated Date October 14, 2024
Reference Date(s) December 31, 2016 (creation), October 3, 2017 (publication)
Frequency Of Update notPlanned

Metadata Source

Harvested from Environmental Dataset Gateway ISO Geospatial Metadata

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Date August 19, 2022
Metadata Created Date October 14, 2024
Metadata Updated Date October 14, 2024
Reference Date(s) December 31, 2016 (creation), October 3, 2017 (publication)
Responsible Party GIS Unit, Division of Information Technology, California Water Resources Control Board (Publisher)
Contact Email
Guid AFDED565-D0F0-411C-B68D-F444C2A30CC3
Access Constraints https://edg.epa.gov/EPA_Data_License.html
Bbox East Long -114.0137505424
Bbox North Lat 42.049869858
Bbox South Lat 32.3826257394
Bbox West Long -124.8549387537
Coupled Resource
Frequency Of Update notPlanned
Harvest Object Id e40924ac-812e-4c3c-9df9-b92f0c3b4f56
Harvest Source Id 9b3cd81e-5515-4bb7-ad3c-5ae44de9b4bd
Harvest Source Title Environmental Dataset Gateway ISO Geospatial Metadata
Licence The spatial information in this dataset is not survey quality and should only be used in manners consistent with its accuracy.
Lineage Integrated Report staff mapped the water bodies using Reach File 3 medium resolution (1:100,000) as the base dataset. Starting with the 2012 cycle all new water bodies are mapped using the National Hydrography Dataset (NHD) high resolution (1:24,000) dataset. The process of remapping the older 1:100,000 water bodies using the higher resolution 1:24,000 NHD is ongoing, therefore the water bodies in this dataset are a combination of medium and high resolution water bodies.
Metadata Language eng
Metadata Type geospatial
Old Spatial {"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": [[[-124.8549387537, 32.3826257394], [-114.0137505424, 32.3826257394], [-114.0137505424, 42.049869858], [-124.8549387537, 42.049869858], [-124.8549387537, 32.3826257394]]]}
Progress completed
Spatial Data Service Type
Spatial Reference System 3310
Spatial Harvester True
Temporal Extent End 2018-04-06T00:00:00

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