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    VT Water Classifications

    Metadata Updated: March 14, 2025

    The Vermont Water Quality Standards (VTWQS) are rules intended to achieve the goals of the Vermont Surface Water Strategy, as well as the objective of the federal Clean Water Act which is to restore and maintain the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of the Nation's water. The classification of waters is in included in the VTWQS. The classification of all waters has been established by a combination of legislative acts and by classification or reclassification decisions issued by the Water Resources Board or Secretary pursuant to 10 V.S.A. � 1253. Those waters reclassified by the Secretary to Class A(1), A(2), or B(1) for any use shall include all waters within the entire watershed of the reclassified waters unless expressly provided otherwise in the rule. All waters above 2,500 feet altitude, National Geodetic Vertical Datum, are designated Class A(1) for all uses, unless specifically designated Class A(2) for use as a public water source. All waters at or below 2,500 feet altitude, National Geodetic Vertical Datum, are designated Class B(2) for all uses, unless specifically designated as Class A(1), A(2), or B(1) for any use.

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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 March 14, 2025

    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 March 14, 2025
    Publisher Vermont Agency of Natural Resources
    Maintainer
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    Data First Published 2017-01-25T20:31:15.000Z
    Data Last Modified 2025-03-11T12:48:43.000Z
    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 929968d6-08dc-4bc5-aa0c-e00322240880
    Harvest Source Id 24b4ec67-cad4-4235-b8af-afaa3907ff2e
    Harvest Source Title Vermont Open Geodata Portal
    Homepage URL https://geodata.vermont.gov/datasets/VTANR::vt-water-classifications
    License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial -73.2900,42.7461,-71.5255,45.0053
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash e76f0c5c7eff04aebb34db7cdd0283db8e963c8fb766cb0209c4aeba3fe17dd9
    Source Schema Version 1.1
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