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NPDES - National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Permit Areas

Identification_Information:

Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator:: Environmental Affairs Office, Washington State Department of Transportation

Publication_Date: 19960630

Title: NPDES - National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Permit Areas

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: map

Publication_Information:

Publication_Place: Olympia, Washington, USA

Publisher: Washington State Department of Transportation

Description:

Abstract:: Polygons depict National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Permit Areas in Washington State. NPDES Permit Areas are areas holding permits to discharge municipal and industrial wastes to surface water. This data set includes ESRI shape files for each of Washington State's NPDES Permit Areas: Cedar/Green (npdes-cg), Clark County (npdes-cl), Island/Snohomish County (npdes-is), South Puget Sound (npdes-ps), and Spokane County (npdes-sp).

Purpose: This data set is used to show NPDES permit areas in Washington State.

Supplemental_Information:: **THE WASHINGTON STATE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION DATA STEWARD FOR THIS DATA SET HAS NOT YET REVIEWED THE METADATA **

Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Single_Date_Time:

Calendar_Date: 1996

Time_of_Day: Unknown

Currentness_Reference: ground condition

Status:

Progress: Complete

Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: Ongoing

Spatial_Domain:

Bounding_Coordinates:

West_Bounding_Coordinate: -125

East_Bounding_Coordinate: -116.875

North_Bounding_Coordinate: 49

South_Bounding_Coordinate: 45.5

Keywords:

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: None

Theme_Keyword: NPDES

Theme_Keyword: pollutant

Theme_Keyword: discharge

Place:

Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: None

Place_Keyword: Washington

Place_Keyword: WA

Place_Keyword: United States

Place_Keyword: USA

Place_Keyword: Pacific Northwest

Access_Constraints: none

Use_Constraints: none

Point_of_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: Elizabeth Lanzer

Contact_Organization: Washington State Department of Transportation

Contact_Position: Environmental GIS Program Manager

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing address

Address: PO Box 47331

City: Olympia

State_or_Province: WA

Postal_Code: 98504-7331

Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 360-705-7476

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 360-705-6833

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: lanzere@wsdot.wa.gov

Browse_Graphic:

Browse_Graphic_File_Name: npdes.jpg

Browse_Graphic_File_Description:: This graphic represents the data as projected on the Washington State Plane Coordinate System, South Zone

Browse_Graphic_File_Type: JPEG

Data_Set_Credit:: Marie Mills, Washington State Department of Transportation, and the Washington Department of Ecology

Native_Data_Set_Environment: ESRI shape files

Data_Quality_Information:

Attribute_Accuracy:

Attribute_Accuracy_Report: none

Completeness_Report: none

Positional_Accuracy:

Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy:

Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy_Report: Positional accuracy has not been determined.

Lineage:

Source_Information:

Source_Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: Washington Department of Ecology

Publication_Date: 199507

Title: WRIA (Water Resource Inventory Areas)

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: map

Publication_Information:

Publication_Place: Olympia, Washington, USA

Publisher: Washington Department of Ecology

Source_Scale_Denominator: 100000

Type_of_Source_Media: online

Source_Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Single_Date_Time:

Calendar_Date: 199507

Time_of_Day: Unknown

Source_Currentness_Reference: publication date

Source_Citation_Abbreviation: WRIA

Source_Contribution: The graphics depicting WRIA boundary areas.

Source_Information:

Source_Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator:: GIS Implementation Team, Washington State Department of Transportation

Publication_Date: 19971101

Title: Washington State County Series, County Boundaries

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: map

Publication_Information:

Publication_Place: Olympia, Washington

Publisher: Washington State Department of Transportation

Source_Scale_Denominator: 24000

Type_of_Source_Media: online

Source_Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Single_Date_Time:

Calendar_Date: 19971101

Time_of_Day: Unknown

Source_Currentness_Reference: ground condition

Source_Citation_Abbreviation: county

Source_Contribution: The graphics depicting county boundaries.

Process_Step:

Process_Description:: Individual ESRI shape files were created from the Watershed Resource Inventory Areas and the Washington State County Series - County Boundaries data sets based on information obtained by Marie Mills during an interview with Ed Molash ( ). Clark and Spokane National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Permit Areas consist of the entire county. The extent of the South Puget Sound, Island/Snohomish and Cedar/Green NPDES areas is based on the Watershed Resource Inventory Area and county boundary data sets.

Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: WRIA

Process_Date: 19960630

Process_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: Elizabeth Lanzer

Contact_Organization: Washington State Department of Transportation

Contact_Position: Environmental GIS Program Manager

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing address

Address: PO Box 47331

City: Olympia

State_or_Province: WA

Postal_Code: 98504-7331

Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 360-705-7476

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 360-705-6833

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: lanzere@wsdot.wa.gov

Cloud_Cover: 0

Spatial_Data_Organization_Information:

Direct_Spatial_Reference_Method: Vector

Spatial_Reference_Information:

Horizontal_Coordinate_System_Definition:

Geographic:

Latitude_Resolution: 0

Longitude_Resolution: 0

Geographic_Coordinate_Units: Decimal degrees

Geodetic_Model:

Horizontal_Datum_Name: North American Datum of 1983

Ellipsoid_Name: Geodetic Reference System 80

Semi_major_Axis: 6378137

Denominator_of_Flattening_Ratio: 298.257

Entity_and_Attribute_Information:

Detailed_Description:

Entity_Type:

Entity_Type_Label: National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Permit Areas

Entity_Type_Definition:: Areas subject to the regulation of municipal and industrial storm water discharges to navigable waters through NPDES permit authorization.

Entity_Type_Definition_Source:: Environmental Affairs Office, Washington State Department of Transportation

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: name

Attribute_Definition:: Name of the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Permit area.

Attribute_Definition_Source: Washington Department of Ecology

Beginning_Date_of_Attribute_Values: 19960630

Overview_Description:

Entity_and_Attribute_Overview:: Polygons depict the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Permit areas in Washington State. The polygons are attributed with the name of the NPDES area.

Distribution_Information:

Distributor:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization: Washington State Department of Transportation

Contact_Person: Michelle Blake

Contact_Position: GIS Data Administrator

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing address

Address: PO Box 47430

City: Olympia

State_or_Province: WA

Postal_Code: 98504-7430

Country: USA

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: physical address

Address: 809 Legion Way SE

City: Olympia

State_or_Province: WA

Postal_Code: 98501

Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 360-705-7797

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 360-705-6817

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: blakem@wsdot.wa.gov

Contact_Instructions: Call, email or write with requests for geo-spatial data sets.

Resource_Description: \gisosc\geodata\maps\500k\dot_eao\npdes-.shp

Distribution_Liability:: The Washington State Department of Transportation shall not be liable for any activity involving these data with regard to lost profits or savings or any other consequential damages; or the fitness for use of the data for a particular purpose; or the installation of the data, its use, or the results obtained.

Standard_Order_Process:

Digital_Form:

Digital_Transfer_Information:

Format_Specification:: Various formats are used: ESRI coverages and shapefiles, and data tables for placement as ArcView "events."

Format_Information_Content:: The standard distribution compact disc contains all geospatial data sets created by the Washington State Dept. of Transportation. Refer to the included Geodata.txt text file for a brief description of the directory structure.
Data formats vary--most data are stored as ESRI shape files, but some data models require coverages. There are also dbf-format tables of data located by geographic coordinates or State Route Accumulated Route Mileage.

Digital_Transfer_Option:

Offline_Option:

Offline_Media: CD-ROM

Fees: none

Ordering_Instructions:: Call, email or write the Distributor with requests for geo-spatial data sets.

Turnaround:: Generally, the standard compact disc containing all distributed data can be sent within one week of receiving a data request.

Standard_Order_Process:

Digital_Form:

Digital_Transfer_Information:

Format_Name: self-extracting zip file

Format_Version_Number: 6.3 SR-1 (926) 32-bit

Format_Specification: WinZip

Format_Information_Content:: Depends on the data set. Arc/Info coverage or shape file; metadata report in html and text files; and, in some cases, a data dictionary text file. Some data sets in the standard distribution are tabular data for placement as ArcView "events."

File_Decompression_Technique: Run the "exe" file under Windows NT.

Digital_Transfer_Option:

Online_Option:

Access_Instructions:: Use anonymous FTP login or web browser download on the URL specified under Network Address.

Online_Computer_and_Operating_System: Unix

Fees: none

Ordering_Instructions:: Download individual data sets from ftp://ftp.wsdot.wa.gov/gis/GeoDataDistribution

Standard_Order_Process:

Non_digital_Form:: The Cartography/GIS Section can plot maps of most geospatial data sets.

Fees: depend on plotting costs.

Ordering_Instructions:: Contact the Point of Contact listed under the Identification Section to determine the availability of this data set in a non-digital representation.

Available_Time_Period:

Time_Period_Information:

Single_Date_Time:

Calendar_Date: Unknown

Time_of_Day: Unknown

Metadata_Reference_Information:

Metadata_Date: 19990621

Metadata_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: Elizabeth Lanzer

Contact_Organization: Washington State Department of Transportation

Contact_Position: Environmental GIS Program Manager

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing address

Address: PO Box 47331

City: Olympia

State_or_Province: WA

Postal_Code: 98504-7331

Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 360-705-7476

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 360-705-6833

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: lanzere@wsdot.wa.gov

Metadata_Standard_Name: FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata

Metadata_Standard_Version: FGDC-STD-001-1998

Metadata_Time_Convention: local time

Metadata_Access_Constraints: none

Metadata_Use_Constraints: none