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    SurfaceWater Source Protection Areas (SPAs)

    Metadata Updated: February 9, 2024

    Source Protection Area (SPA) boundaries have been located on RF 24000 & RF 25000 scale USGS topographic maps by Water Supply Division (DEC) and VT Dept of Health (historical) personnel. Buffered SPAs are based on the point location of the water source(s) Refer to the SOURCE coverage documentation file for information on data sources used.This GIS layer consists of the geographic location of the Source Protection Areas for active and inactive Public Community and Non-Transient Non-Community for surface water intakes labeled by the Water System Identification Number (WSID) and source number (i.e. WL001 or IN002). The SPA generally consists of a buffer around the upstream river and tributaries and watershed boundary. The source locations are drawn from the State Drinking Water database (SDWIS). The water sources are surface water intakes on lakes or rivers that predate regulations developed in the 1970s to new sources under review now.For information regarding attributes of Public Water Source feature layers, please download the:Public Water Sources Data Dictionaryupdate 06/17/2022 - join issue fixed that caused some features to fail. 

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. Non-Federal: This dataset is covered by different Terms of Use than Data.gov. License: Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date September 2, 2022
    Metadata Updated Date February 9, 2024

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from Vermont Open Geodata Portal

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date September 2, 2022
    Metadata Updated Date February 9, 2024
    Publisher Dept of Environmental Conservation, Water Resource Section
    Maintainer
    Identifier https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=fe35e66df2e64d31b5523812b095c868&sublayer=184
    Data First Published 2016-10-12T20:06:46.000Z
    Data Last Modified 2016-10-12T00:00:00.000Z
    Category geospatial
    Public Access Level public
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Categories Boundaries, Environmental
    Harvest Object Id 7d466928-6028-403f-ad0d-09148e330914
    Harvest Source Id 24b4ec67-cad4-4235-b8af-afaa3907ff2e
    Harvest Source Title Vermont Open Geodata Portal
    Homepage URL https://geodata.vermont.gov/maps/VTANR::surfacewater-source-protection-areas-spas
    License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial -73.3948,42.7655,-71.8701,45.0010
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash e1c35e352812ac69ec50bba6941fe4b9860219b6c3ad9f28e56d08c41c101ab0
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial {"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": -73.3948, 42.7655, -73.3948, 45.0010, -71.8701, 45.0010, -71.8701, 42.7655, -73.3948, 42.7655}

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