National Water Information System Stations, Northeast United States, 2010

Description:

This point shapefile contains the locations of the National Water Information System (NWIS) stations in the Northeastern United States. As part of the Survey's program of disseminating water data to the public, the Water Resources Division (WRD) maintains a distributed network of computers and fileservers for the storage and retrieval of water data collected through its activities at approximately 1.4 million sites.The NWIS is a distributed water database in which data can be processed over a network of workstations and fileservers at Survey offices throughout the United States. The system is composed of four subsystems: the Ground-Water Site-Inventory System, the Water-Quality System, the Automated Data-Processing System, and the Water-Use Data System. Many types of data are stored in the NWIS' distributed, local data bases, including: site information, time-series (flow, stage, precipitation, chemical), peak flow, ground water, water quality, and water use. To support coastal planning and other activities pursuant to the Coastal Zone Management Act, Energy Policy Act, Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act, National Environmental Policy Act, Rivers and Harbors Act and the Submerged Lands Act. This layer is presented in the WGS84 coordinate system for web display purposes. Downloadable data are provided in native coordinate system or projection.

Creator:

United States. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, United States. National Ocean Service, and United States. Department of Commerce

Publisher:

United States. National Ocean Service

Provider:

Stanford

Resource Class:

Datasets

Resource Type:

Point data

Subject:

Water quality monitoring stations, Groundwater flow, Precipitation, Oceans, and Environment

Theme:

Oceans and Environment

Temporal Coverage:

2010

Date Issued:

2011

Spatial Coverage:

Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic Coast (New England), Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, Buzzards Bay (Mass.), Cape Cod Bay (Mass.), Massachusetts Bay (Mass.), Nantucket Sound (Mass.), Penobscot Bay (Me.), Rhode Island Sound (Mass. and R.I.), Vineyard Sound (Mass.), Maine, Gulf of, and Long Island Sound (N.Y. and Conn.)

Rights:

This item is in the public domain. There are no restrictions on use.

Rights Holder:

This work is in the Public Domain, meaning that it is not subject to copyright.

Access Rights:

Public

Format:

Shapefile

Georeferenced:

More details at:

https://purl.stanford.edu/tn219xy1684