{"accessLevel": "public", "bureauCode": ["010:12"], "contactPoint": {"@type": "vcard:Contact", "fn": "Michael E. Wieczorek", "hasEmail": "mailto:mewieczo@usgs.gov"}, "description": "This data set represents the mean percent impervious surface from the Imperviousness Layer of the \nNational Land Cover Dataset 2001 (LaMotte and Wieczorek, 2010), compiled for every catchment of \nNHDPlus for the conterminous United States. The source data set represents imperviousness for the \nconterminous United States for 2001. The Imperviousness Layer of the National Land Cover Data Set \nfor 2001 was produced through a cooperative project conducted by the Multi-Resolution Land \nCharacteristics (MRLC) Consortium. The MRLC Consortium is a partnership of Federal agencies \n(http://www.mrlc.gov), consisting of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the National Oceanic and \nAtmospheric Administration (NOAA), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA), the U.S. \nDepartment of Agriculture (USDA), the U.S. Forest Service (USFS), the National Park Service (NPS), \nthe U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), and the USDA \nNatural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS).\n\t\t\nThe NHDPlus Version 1.1 is an integrated suite of application-ready geospatial datasets that incorporates \nmany of the best features of the National Hydrography Dataset (NHD) and the National Elevation Dataset \n(NED). The NHDPlus includes a stream network (based on the 1:100,00-scale NHD), improved networking, \nnaming, and value-added attributes (VAAs). NHDPlus also includes elevation-derived catchments \n(drainage areas) produced using a drainage enforcement technique first widely used in New England, \nand thus referred to as \"the New England Method.\" This technique involves \"burning in\" the 1:100,000-scale \nNHD and when available building \"walls\" using the National Watershed Boundary Dataset (WBD). The \nresulting modified digital elevation model (HydroDEM) is used to produce hydrologic derivatives that agree \nwith the NHD and WBD. Over the past two years, an interdisciplinary team from the U.S. Geological Survey \n(USGS), and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA), and contractors, found that this method \nproduces the best quality NHD catchments using an automated process (USEPA, 2007). The NHDPlus \ndataset is organized by 18 Production Units that cover the conterminous United States.\n\t\t\nThe NHDPlus version 1.1 data are grouped by the U.S. Geologic Survey's  Major River Basins (MRBs, Crawford \nand others, 2006).  MRB1, covering the New England and Mid-Atlantic River basins, contains NHDPlus \nProduction Units 1 and 2.  MRB2, covering the South Atlantic-Gulf and Tennessee River basins, contains \nNHDPlus Production Units 3 and 6.  MRB3, covering the Great Lakes, Ohio, Upper Mississippi, and \nSouris-Red-Rainy River basins, contains NHDPlus Production Units 4, 5, 7 and 9.  MRB4, covering the \nMissouri River basins, contains NHDPlus Production Units 10-lower and 10-upper.  MRB5, covering the \nLower Mississippi, Arkansas-White-Red, and Texas-Gulf River basins, contains NHDPlus Production \nUnits 8, 11 and 12.  MRB6, covering the Rio Grande, Colorado and Great Basin River basins, contains \nNHDPlus Production Units 13, 14, 15 and 16.  MRB7, covering the Pacific Northwest River basins, \ncontains NHDPlus Production Unit 17.  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