NJ Highlands HUC14 Subwatersheds

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Identification_Information:

Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: NJ Highlands Council

Publication_Date: 20120224

Title: NJ Highlands HUC14 Subwatersheds

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: vector digital data

Publication_Information:

Publication_Place: Chester, NJ

Publisher: New Jersey Highlands Council

Online_Linkage: <http://www.highlands.state.nj.us/>

Description:

Abstract:

Drainage basins are delineated from 1:24,000-scale (7.5-minute) USGS quadrangles. The delineations have been developed for general purpose use by USGS District staff over the past 20 years. Arc and polygon attributes have been included in the coverage with basin names and ranks of divides, and 14-digit hydrologic unit codes. The New Jersey state boundary as origionally defined in the USGS source coverage does not match that used by the NJDEP. Therefore the coverage was edited by the NJ Geological Survey to remove the USGS state boundary and insert the NJDEP state boundary, thus resolving most potential clipping errors.

Purpose:

This coverage can be used as a starting point to delineate a study area with a drainage basin boundary. Delineations starting from most major data collection stations and named streams are included. The coverage was edited by the New Jersey Geological Survey to make use of the NJDEP state boundary, in order to preclude errors that might have been caused by the misaligned boundaries.

Supplemental_Information:

This data is not field-checked and comes with no guarantees as to its accuracy. The minimum polygon size has not been defined, but the 14-digit hydrologic units have a defined minimum size of 3,000 acres. Some basins are defined smaller than that to allow for a reasonable geographical arrangement of 14-digit sub-watersheds.
The original NJDEP 14 Digit Hydrologic Unit Code delineations for New Jersey (DEPHUC14) was clipped on the HIghlands boundary. The Highlads Council is aware as of this publishing that an updated NJDEP 14 Digit Hydrologic Unit Code delineations for New Jersey (DEPHUC14) has been published by NJDEP and will incorporate it in the future.

Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Single_Date/Time:

Calendar_Date: 2005

Currentness_Reference: ground condition

Status:

Progress: Complete

Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: None planned

Spatial_Domain:

Bounding_Coordinates:

West_Bounding_Coordinate: -75.55

East_Bounding_Coordinate: -73.86

North_Bounding_Coordinate: 41.36

South_Bounding_Coordinate: 38.85

Keywords:

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: none

Theme_Keyword: hydrologic-unit codes

Theme_Keyword: hydrologic units

Theme_Keyword: huc14

Theme_Keyword: environmental protection

Theme_Keyword: dephuc14

Theme_Keyword: drainage basin

Theme_Keyword: watershed

Theme_Keyword: subwatershed

Theme_Keyword: hydrologic

Theme_Keyword: hydrology

Theme_Keyword: HUC

Theme_Keyword: NJDEP

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: ISO 19115 Category

Theme_Keyword: inlandWaters

Place:

Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)

Place_Keyword: New Jersey

Place_Keyword: State of

Temporal:

Temporal_Keyword_Thesaurus: none

Temporal_Keyword: 2000

Temporal_Keyword: 1980

Access_Constraints: None

Use_Constraints:

Data Distribution Agreement The Highlands Council Agrees to abide by the terms and conditions of the following: I. Description of Data to be Provided The data provided herein are distributed subject to the following conditions and restrictions: Subject Data Layers For all data contained herein, the Highlands Council makes no representations of any kind, including, but not limited to, the warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular use, nor are any such warranties to be implied with respect to the digital data layers furnished hereunder. The Highlands Council assumes no responsibility to maintain digital data layers in any manner or form. II. Terms of Agreement 1. Digital data received from the Highlands Council are to be used solely for internal purposes in the conduct of daily affairs. 2. The data are provided, as is, without warranty of any kind and the user is responsible for understanding the accuracy limitations of all digital data layers provided herein, or as documented in any accompanying Data Dictionary and Readme files. Any reproduction or manipulation of the above data must ensure that the coordinate reference system remains intact. 3. Digital data received from the Highlands Council may not be reproduced or redistributed for use by anyone without first obtaining written authorization from the Highlands Council. This clause is not intended to restrict distribution of printed mapped information produced from the digital data. 4. Any maps, publications, reports, or other documents produced as a result of this project that utilize Highlands Council digital data will credit the Highlands Council's Geographic Information System (GIS) as the source of the data with the following credit/disclaimer: "This (map/publication/report) was developed using New Jersey Highlands Water Protection and Planning Council's Geographic Information System digital data, but this secondary product has not been verified by the Highlands Council and is not state-authorized." 5. Users shall require any contractor, hired to undertake work that will utilize digital data obtained from the Highlands Council, to agree not to use, reproduce, or redistribute Highlands Council GIS data for any purpose other than the specified contractual work. All copies of Highlands Council GIS data utilized by an contractor will be required to be returned to the original user at the close of such contractual work. Users hereby agree to abide by the use and reproduction conditions specified above and agree to hold any contractor to the same terms. By using data provided herein, the user acknowledges that terms and conditions have been read and that the user is bound by these criteria.

Point_of_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization: NJ Highlands Council

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical address

Address: 100 North Road

City: Chester

State_or_Province: New Jersey

Postal_Code: 07930

Country: UNITED STATES

Contact_Voice_Telephone: (908) 879-6737

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (908) 879-4205

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: gis@highlands.state.nj.us

Hours_of_Service: 9:00AM - 5:00PM

Browse_Graphic:

Browse_Graphic_File_Description: snapshot image of the DEPHUC14

Browse_Graphic_File_Type: GIF

Data_Set_Credit:

Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP), New Jersey Geological Survey (NJGS)

Cross_Reference:

Citation_Information:

Originator:

Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP), New Jersey Geological Survey (NJGS)

Publication_Date: 20000405

Title:

NJDEP 14 Digit Hydrologic Unit Code delineations for New Jersey (DEPHUC14)

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: vector digital data

Publication_Information:

Publication_Place: Trenton

Publisher: NJDEP

Online_Linkage:

<http://www.state.nj.us/dep/gis/digidownload/zips/statewide/dephuc14.zip>

Data_Quality_Information:

Attribute_Accuracy:

Attribute_Accuracy_Report:

Attributes were verified against various sources, including USGS huc14 coverage and NJPDES data.

Logical_Consistency_Report:

The dephuc14 has been reassembled from the USGS HUC14 coverage. The HUC14 hydrologic unit boundaries, not including the state boundary, were delineated by the USGS from 1:24000 scale (7.5 minute) USGS topoquads. This data is not field checked and has no guarantees as to its accuracy. The minmum polygon size has not been defined, but the 14-digit hydrologic units have a defined minimum size of 3000 acres. Some basins are smaller, which gives a reasonable geographic arrangement to the 14 digit sub-watersheds.

Completeness_Report:

The project as originally designed has been completed for the entire state. Also, the New Jersey state boundary as origionally defined in the USGS source coverage does not match that used by the NJDEP. Therefore the coverage was edited by the NJ Geological Survey to remove the USGS state boundary and insert the NJDEP state boundary, thus resolving most potential clipping errors.

Positional_Accuracy:

Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy:

Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy_Report:

NJGS received sub-huc14 basins coverage from USGS-WRD in NAD27 UTM coordinates and began processing into Dephuc14 in NAD83 State Plane Feet coordinates. Projection resulted in a coverage that was shifted about 735 ft SSW in comparison to earlier coverages. The reason for, and origin of this shift is unknown. Therefore, the projected coverage was manually transformed using an affine transformation to best fit the correct line positions based on a comparison to earlier version of the dephuc14 coverage.

Lineage:

Source_Information:

Source_Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: U.S. Geological Survey, William H. Ellis, Jr.

Publication_Date: 19991222

Title: USGS huc14 sub-watershed basins

Edition: 1999

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: vector digital data

Publication_Information:

Publication_Place: West Trenton, NJ

Publisher: USGS

Other_Citation_Details:

MAP AUTOMATION AUTOMATION DATE: Spring/Summer 1994 COORDINATE SYSTEM: Universe Trans Mercator DATUM: NAD27 AUTOMATION METHODS: Hand Digitized PRODUCTION STAFF: USGS, West Trenton AUTOMATION STATUS: Complete as of 12/10/99 DATA AVAILABILITY: Contact USGS
References cited:
Seaber, P.R., Kapinos, F.P., and Knapp, G.L., 1987, Hydrologic unit maps: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Supply Paper 2294, p. 1-13.
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Soil Conservation Service, 1980, Hydrologic watershed unit map-1980 State of New York: U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1 sheet.
_______ 1982, Hydrologic unit coding map. (Unpublished map.) Somerset, New Jersey, 1 sheet.
_______ 1992, Mapping and digitizing hydrologic unit boundaries: National instruction no. 170-304. 26 p.
U.S. Geological Survey, 1974, Hydrologic unit map-1974, State of New Jersey, 1 sheet.
_______ 1982, A U.S. Geological Survey data standard, codes for the identification of hydrologic units in the United States and the Caribbean outlying areas: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 878A. p. A1- A3.

Source_Scale_Denominator: 24000

Type_of_Source_Media: CD-ROM

Source_Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Single_Date/Time:

Calendar_Date: 1999

Time_of_Day: unknown

Source_Currentness_Reference: publication date

Source_Citation_Abbreviation: USGS HUC14

Source_Contribution: Basis for dephuc14

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

1. USGS Process notes for huc14 coverage:
Hydrologic unit codes were used to tag each drainage basin polygon in the entire state with a 14-digit code. Various subsets of these 14 digits are included in the data set. They are coded in the attribute HUC14, which has pieces of it redefined as HUC4, HUC6, HUC8, and HUC11.
HUC 02040206010 (Oldman's Creek) was moved from HUC8 02040206 (Cohansey & Maurice) to HUC8 02040202 (Lower Delaware)
HUC 02040301010 (Manasquan River) was moved from HUC8 02040301 (Mullica & Toms River) to HUC8 02030104 (Sandy Hook & Staten Island)
Moved hucdiv 11 arc at point of Sandy Hook to new point on New Jersey/New York state boundary line
For Atlantic Ocean coastline, offshore buffer created at 3 miles. Buffer at 5 miles is ocean.
Hucdiv arcs between New Jersey and Staten Island, New York coded item hucdiv = 11. Delineations are in agrrement with huc boundaries of publication Hydrologic Watershed Unit Map-1980 State of New York
Hucdiv arcs between Staten Island and Long Island, New York coded item hucdiv = 8 Delineations are in agreement with huc boundaries of publication Hydrologic Watershed Unit Map-1980 State of New York
hucdiv arcs of huc11 polygon 02040301050 changed
Reassigning of subpolygons of huc14 02040301080100 to 02040301050040,
Reassigning of subpolygons of huc14 02040301080110 to 02040301050050, new arc digitzed for huc11 boundary at Seaside bridge reason consolidation of Kettle Creek
Added offshore polygon huc14 02030104910020
Added offshore polygons huc14 02030104920020 and 02030104920030
Added offshore polygons huc14 02030104930020 and 02030104930030
Added offshore polygons huc14 02040301910020 and 02040301910030
Added offshore polygons huc14 02040301920020, 02040301920030, and 02040301920040
Added offshore polygons huc14 02040302910020 and 02040302910030
Added offshore polygons huc14 02040302920020, 02040302920030, 02040302920040, 02040302920050, and 02040302920060
Added offshore polygons huc14 02040204910020, 02040204910030, and 02040204910040
Moved huc14 02040206070010 to 02040206060100
Moved the huc8 arc from the coastline to the state line for huc14 02040206060100
Calculated coastline arcs for huc8 02040206 item hucdiv equal to 8
Moved subpoly of huc14 02040105150040 to 02040105150020
Reassigning of subpolygons of huc14 02020007040030 to 02020007040050, reason consolidation of Wawayanda Creek
Reassigning of subpolygons of huc14 02020007040030 to 02020007040040, reason consolidation of Black Creek
Reassigning of subpolygons of huc14 02030105160040 to 02030105160070, reason consolidation of South River watershed
Reassigning of subpolygons of huc14 02030105100140 to 02030105100130, reason consolidation of Bear Brook
Reassigning of subpolygons of huc14 02030105110070 to 02030105110070, reason consolidation of Beden Brook
Reassigning of subpolygons of huc14 02030104070060 to 02030104070070, reason consolidation of Beden Brook
Reassigning of subpolygons of huc14 02030104060060 to 02030104070110, reason consolidation of lower Shrewsbury River
Reassigning of subpolygons of huc14 02040301160100 to 02040301160110, reason consolidation of Albertson Brook
Reassigning of subpolygons of huc14 02040301150060 to 02040301150040, reason consolidation of Springers Brook
Reassigning of subpolygons of huc14 02040301190040 to 02040301190030, reason consolidation of West Branch of Wading River
Reassigning of subpolygons of huc14 02040301190070 to 02040301190050, reason consolidation of West Branch of Wading River
Reassigning of subpolygons of huc14 02040302050130 to 02040302050090, reason consolidation of English Creek subwatershed
Reassigning of subpolygons of huc14 02040206140010 to 02040206120050, reason consolidation of lower Still Run
Reassigning of subpolygons of huc14 02040206140060 to 02040206140010, reason consolidation of subbasins of Maurice River
Reassigning of subpolygons of huc14 02040202120060 to 02040202120080, reason consolidation of Big Timber Creek
Reassigning of subpolygons of huc14 02040202120060 to 02040202120020, reason consolidation of North Branch of Big Timber Creek
Reassigning of subpolygons of huc14 02040206040010 to 02040206040030, reason consolidation of subbasin
Reassigning of subpolygons of huc14 02040202060020 to 02040202060050, reason consolidation of Black Run
Reassigning of some subpolygons of huc14 02040201030010 to 02040201070030, reason consolidation of Crosswicks Creek
Reassigning of some subpolygons of huc14 02040202160060 to 02040206020010, reason consolidation of Oldmans Creek
Reassigning of some subpolygons of huc14 02030103100010 to create new 02030103100020, all of remaing huc14 polygons in 02030103100 were renumbered, reason consolidation of Masonicus Brook and Mahwah River
Reassigning of subpolygons of huc14 02030103040020 to 02030103120060, reason consolidation of Deepavaal Brook
New hucdiv line digitized for huc14 02030103120010, reason consolidation of Peckman River
Reassigning of subpolygons of huc14 02040105110040 to 02040105120020, reason consolidation of Lopatcong Creek. New arc digitized for delineation.
Reassigning of subpolygons of huc14 02040105110020 to 02040105110030, reason consolidation of Buckhorn Creek.
2. NJGS Processing Notes for Dephuc14
12/22/99 NJGS received sub-huc14 basins coverage from USGS-WRD in NAD27 UTM coordinates and began processing into Dephuc14 in NAD83 State Plane Feet coordinates. Projection resulted in a coverage that was shifted about 735 ft SSW in comparison to earlier coverages. The reason for, and origin of this shift is unknown. Therefore, the projected coverage was manually transformed using an affine transformation to best fit the correct line positions based on a comparison to earlier version of the dephuc14 coverage. The coverage was built as a polygon and line coverage.
12/28/99 The new coverage was edited to delete the USGS version of the NJ State boundary, then equivalent lines from the NJDEP State-boundary reference coverage (staco) were added in their place. All node errors and label errros were edited, then the coverage was dissolved from a sub-huc14 level to the huc14 level.
12/30/99 The dephuc14 coverage was cleaned, then polygon labels from an earlier version were joined to the PAT in order to preserve NJPDES attributes for unchanged polygons. Watershed Management Area, Water Region, and new HUC codes were edited to reflect the revisions. Repeated PAT items were dropped.
01/03/00 The dephuc14 AAT was edited to add USGS and NJGS field items HUCDIV and LINTYPE respectively. HUCDIV is an item used to represent the HUC4, HUC6, HUC8, HUC11, and HUC14 boundary lines, with the lower HUC values taking preceedence over higher values. LINTYPE denotes those lines taken from the NJ State boundary theme (LINTYPE 9).
01/26/00 Arc attibutes were manually updated to reflect HUC and LINTYPE values. The coverage was then rebuilt.
02/04/00 Arcs were added and deleted from the coverage based on NJDPES review to correct HUC14 basin delineation.
02/10/00 ARCS were added to coverage based on NJPDES review and USGS agreement to correct HUC14 basin delineation. All HUCDIV arcs items and HUC14 polygon items updated and checked. The set of 212 NAD83 quadrangle tics for the State were added to dephuc14 to replace the set of four tics originally included in the coverage. The dephuc14 coverage was cleaned and duplicated as dephuc14bup.
03/17/00 Created two new HUC14 polygons by adding two new lines based on NJPDES review of proposed changes with the USGS. Recleaned the coverage.
03/20/00 Updated coverage polygon labels with NJPDES labels. Added HUC4, HUC6, HUC8, WREGION, WR-NAME, WMA_NAME and WMNAME items and updated them to DWM specifications.
03/27/00 Added a new HUC11 line to split offshore HUC11 02040302910 in order to add 02040302920. Updated HUCDIV lintypes for altered area. Update HUC14 d_swid codes for 4 polygons. Dissolved dephuc14 into dephuc11, added and updated .PAT items for WMA, WMA_NAME, WREGION, and WR_NAME.
9/11/00 Calculated total drainage area of each subwatershed. This includes area that drains to the subwatershed plus that of the subwatershed. Expressed area in acres and square miles. Added areas to coverage.

Process_Date: 20000327

Process_Step:

Process_Description: Area was clipped on the NJ Highlands Boundary.

Process_Date: 20120218

Process_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: Roger D. Keren, AICP

Contact_Organization: NJ Highlands Council

Contact_Position: Director, GIS

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical address

Address: 100 North Road

City: Chester

State_or_Province: New Jersey

Postal_Code: 07930

Country: UNITED STATES

Contact_Voice_Telephone: (908) 879-6737

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (908) 879-4205

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: roger.keren@highlands.state.nj.us

Hours_of_Service: 9:00AM - 5:00PM

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Spatial_Data_Organization_Information:

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Point_and_Vector_Object_Information:

Spatial_Reference_Information:

Horizontal_Coordinate_System_Definition:

Planar:

Planar_Coordinate_Information:

Planar_Coordinate_Encoding_Method: Coordinate Pair

Coordinate_Representation:

Abscissa_Resolution: 2

Ordinate_Resolution: 2

Planar_Distance_Units: ft

Geodetic_Model:

Horizontal_Datum_Name: North American Datum of 1983

Ellipsoid_Name: Geodetic Reference System 80

Semi-major_Axis: 6378206

Denominator_of_Flattening_Ratio: 294.9786982

Entity_and_Attribute_Information:

Detailed_Description:

Entity_Type:

Entity_Type_Label: NJDEPHUC14

Entity_Type_Definition: NJDEP 14 digit Hydrologic Unit Code designations.

Entity_Type_Definition_Source: NJDEP

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: FID

Attribute_Definition: Internal feature number.

Attribute_Definition_Source: ESRI

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain:

Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: Shape

Attribute_Definition: Feature geometry.

Attribute_Definition_Source: ESRI

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain: Coordinates defining the features.

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: HUC14

Attribute_Definition: Fourteen Digit Hydrologic Unit Code

Attribute_Definition_Source: NJDEP

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain: See database for assigned 14 digit value

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: SW_NAME

Attribute_Definition: Sub Watershed name

Attribute_Definition_Source: NJDEP

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain: See database for sub watershed name

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: WMA

Attribute_Definition: Watershed Management Area Number

Attribute_Definition_Source: NJDEP

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain: See database for assigned watershed management area number

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: Shape_Leng

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: Shape_Area

Attribute_Definition: Area of feature in internal units squared.

Attribute_Definition_Source: ESRI

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain: Positive real numbers that are automatically generated.

Distribution_Information:

Distributor:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization: New Jersey Highlands Council

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical address

Address: 100 North Road (Route 513)

City: Chester

State_or_Province: New Jersey

Postal_Code: 07930

Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 908-879-6737

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 908-879-4205

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: gis@highlands.state.nj.us

Hours_of_Service: 9:00AM - 5:00PM

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Computer_Contact_Information:

Network_Address:

Network_Resource_Name: <http://www.state.nj.us/dep/gis/stateshp.html>

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Metadata_Reference_Information:

Metadata_Date: 20120218

Metadata_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization: NJ Highlands Council

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical address

Address: 100 North Road

City: Chester

State_or_Province: New Jersey

Postal_Code: 07930

Country: UNITED STATES

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 908-879-6737

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 908-879-4205

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: gis@highlands.state.nj.us

Hours_of_Service: 9:00AM - 5:00PM

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