wri014246wlmap_bndry
Metadata also available as - [Questions & Answers] - [Parseable text] - [XML]
Metadata:
- Identification_Information:
-
- Citation:
-
- Citation_Information:
-
- Originator:
-
U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, Ellis, W. H., Price C.V., Spitz, F.J., Lacombe, P.J., and Carleton, G.B., Authors
- Publication_Date: 19981231
- Publication_Time: 235900
- Title: wri014246wlmap_bndry
- Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: vector digital data
- Other_Citation_Details:
-
PROJECTED COORDINATE SYSTEM UTM NAD 83; original projection was UTM NAD 27.
- Description:
-
- Abstract:
-
The Cape May study area boundary (wri014246wlmap_bndry, polygon), includes part of the Tuckahoe River Basin, and includes but is not limited to the entire basins of Tarkiln Brook, Mill Creek, Fishing Creek, Dias Creek, Bidwell Creek, Goshen Creek, Dennis Creek, Sluice Creek, East Creek, and West Creek and all of Cape May County, New Jersey, and parts of the New Jersey counties of Atlantic and Cumberland. The basin delineations (Ellis and Price, 1995) have been developed for general purpose use by USGS staff, originally from 1:24,000 scale (7.5 minute) USGS quadrangles. The horizontal datum is NAD 83.
The study area boundary is one of four data layers used to present water level information for the Cape May study. The four geographic data layers were developed at a scale of 1:24,000, and consist of; (1) the study area boundary (wri014246wlmap_bndry, polygon), (2) water-levels from wells (wri014246wlmap_gwpts, points), (3) water-levels from streams (wri014246wlmap_stmpts, points), and (4) an interpretive water-table contour map (wri014246wlmap_wlcont, lines).
The water-level information for the unconfined aquifer system in the Cape May study area presented here is drawn from two reports of much larger scope, that include an assessment of the hydrogeologic framework, groundwater flow, availability of water supplies and salt-water intrusion. The information from the rest of the original report are not available in geographic data layer form, but can be downloaded as PDF's of the complete original reports cited herein.
The digital data sets that support unconfined-aquifer water-levels and interpretations for the Cape May study area are derived from one of nine hard copy published reports which contain similar data and information across other areas of southern New Jersey. Digital data sets for the unconfined-aquifer water-level and interpretive portions from all nine reports are being simultaneously released, motivated by development of an interactive web-viewer tool that enables convenient online viewing of the information (http://nj.usgs.gov/special/web_mapper/). Eight of the nine published reports are from a comprehensive unconfined-aquifer study series; Great Egg Harbor River (Watt and Johnson,1992), Toms River (Watt and others, 1994), Upper Maurice River (Lacombe and Rosman,1995), Mullica River (Johnson and Watt, 1996), Salem River (Johnson and Charles,1997), Maurice River (Charles and others, 2001), Rancocas Creek (Watt and others, 2002), and Atlantic Coastal (Gordon, 2004). The ninth report that contains unconfined-aquifer water-level data and an interpretation is from a comprehensive water-resource study in Cape May County (Spitz, 1998, Lacombe and Carleton, 2002).
- Purpose:
-
The boundary for the Cape May study delineates the area of interest in which the depth to water, altitude of the water table, gradients, and direction of groundwater flow within the unconfined aquifer system were examined. Delineation of the study area was done in cooperation with the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection for their purpose of developing a scientific basis to help address environmental, water-resource managment and planning, water availability, water use, and water quality questions.
- Time_Period_of_Content:
-
- Time_Period_Information:
-
- Range_of_Dates/Times:
-
- Beginning_Date: 19950101
- Ending_Date: 19950131
- Currentness_Reference:
-
Areal span and time span represented by the measured water levels.
- Status:
-
- Progress: Complete
- Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: As needed
- Spatial_Domain:
-
- Bounding_Coordinates:
-
- West_Bounding_Coordinate: -74.972124
- East_Bounding_Coordinate: -74.539221
- North_Bounding_Coordinate: 39.324472
- South_Bounding_Coordinate: 38.928239
- Keywords:
-
- Theme:
-
- Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: None
- Theme_Keyword: Holly Beach water-bearing zone
- Theme_Keyword: Estuarine sand aquifer
- Theme_Keyword: Cohansey aquifer
- Theme_Keyword: Kirkwood-Cohansey aquifer system
- Theme_Keyword: Cape May Formation
- Theme_Keyword: surface water
- Theme_Keyword: groundwater
- Theme_Keyword: streams
- Theme_Keyword: hydrography
- Theme_Keyword: hydrology
- Theme_Keyword: water table
- Theme_Keyword: water-level
- Theme_Keyword: unconfined aquifer
- Theme_Keyword: water-level contours
- Theme_Keyword: potentiometric
- Theme:
-
- Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: ISO 19115 Topic Categories
- Theme_Keyword: environment
- Theme_Keyword: inlandWaters
- Place:
-
- Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: None
- Place_Keyword: Cape May study area
- Place_Keyword: Tuckahoe River Basin
- Place_Keyword: Tarkiln Brook Basin
- Place_Keyword: Mill Creek Basin
- Place_Keyword: Fishing Creek Basin
- Place_Keyword: Dias Creek Basin
- Place_Keyword: Bidwell Creek Basin
- Place_Keyword: Goshen Creek Basin
- Place_Keyword: Dennis Creek Basin
- Place_Keyword: Sluice Creek Basin
- Place_Keyword: East Creek Basin
- Place_Keyword: West Creek Basin
- Place_Keyword: Atlantic County
- Place_Keyword: Cape May County
- Place_Keyword: Cumberland County
- Place_Keyword: New Jersey
- Place_Keyword: United States
- Access_Constraints: None
- Use_Constraints:
-
Although these data have been processed successfully on a computer system at the U.S. Geological Survey, no warranty expressed or implied is made regarding the accuracy or utility of the data on any other system or for general or scientific purposes, nor shall the act of distribution constitute any such warranty. It is also strongly recommended that careful attention be paid to the constraints of the metadata file associated with these data to evaluate data set limitations, restrictions or intended use. The U.S. Geological Survey shall not be held liable for improper or incorrect use of the data described and/or contained herein.
- Point_of_Contact:
-
- Contact_Information:
-
- Contact_Organization_Primary:
-
- Contact_Organization: U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey
- Contact_Address:
-
- Address_Type: mailing
- Address: 3450 Princeton Pike, Suite 110
- City: Lawrenceville
- State_or_Province: New Jersey
- Postal_Code: 08648
- Country: US
- Contact_Voice_Telephone: (609) 771-3900
- Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (609) 771-3915
- Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: dc_nj@usgs.gov
- Hours_of_Service: 8:00AM-4:30PM, Monday-Friday
- Contact_Instructions:
-
Go to the website: http://nj.usgs.gov Or email: dc_nj@usgs.gov Or phone: (609) 771-3900
- Data_Set_Credit:
-
Spitz, F.J., 1998, Analysis of groundwater flow and saltwater encroachment in the shallow aquifer system of Cape May County, New Jersey, U.S. Geological Survey Water-Supply Paper 2490, 51 p. (page 11, figure 11a) http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/wsp2490
Lacombe, P.J., and Carleton, G.B., 2002, Hydrogeologic framework, availability of water supplies, and saltwater intrusion, Cape May County, New Jersey, U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 01-4246, 152 p. (page 10 figure 5, page 63 figure 35, page 141 Appendix 1) http://pubs.usgs.gov/wri/wri014246
Ellis, W. H., and Price C.V., 1995, Development of a 14-Digit Hydrologic Coding Scheme and Boundary Data Set for New Jersey, USGS Water-Resources Investigations Report 95-4134. 1 sheet, 1:250,000. http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/wri954134 (digital geographic data at: http://www.state.nj.us/dep/gis/digidownload/metadata/statewide/dephuc14.htm)
- Native_Data_Set_Environment:
-
Microsoft Windows 7 Version 6.1 (Build 7601) Service Pack 1; Esri ArcGIS 10.2.2.3552
- Spatial_Data_Organization_Information:
-
- Direct_Spatial_Reference_Method: Vector
- Point_and_Vector_Object_Information:
-
- SDTS_Terms_Description:
-
- SDTS_Point_and_Vector_Object_Type: GT-polygon composed of chains
- Point_and_Vector_Object_Count: 1
- Spatial_Reference_Information:
-
- Horizontal_Coordinate_System_Definition:
-
- Planar:
-
- Map_Projection:
-
- Map_Projection_Name: NAD 1983 UTM Zone 18N
- Transverse_Mercator:
-
- Scale_Factor_at_Central_Meridian: 0.9996
- Longitude_of_Central_Meridian: -75.0
- Latitude_of_Projection_Origin: 0.0
- False_Easting: 500000.0
- False_Northing: 0.0
- Planar_Coordinate_Information:
-
- Planar_Coordinate_Encoding_Method: coordinate pair
- Coordinate_Representation:
-
- Abscissa_Resolution: 0.0001
- Ordinate_Resolution: 0.0001
- Planar_Distance_Units: meter
- Geodetic_Model:
-
- Horizontal_Datum_Name: D North American 1983
- Ellipsoid_Name: GRS 1980
- Semi-major_Axis: 6378137.0
- Denominator_of_Flattening_Ratio: 298.257222101
- Entity_and_Attribute_Information:
-
- Detailed_Description:
-
- Entity_Type:
-
- Entity_Type_Label: wri014246wlmap_bndry
- Entity_Type_Definition: NJDEP 11 digit Hydrologic Unit Boundary
- Entity_Type_Definition_Source: NJDEP
- Attribute:
-
- Attribute_Label: OBJECTID
- 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: surf_basin
- Attribute_Definition: boundary
- Attribute_Definition_Source: USGS
- Attribute_Domain_Values:
-
- Unrepresentable_Domain:
-
Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.
- Attribute:
-
- Attribute_Label: Shape_Length
- Attribute_Definition: Length of feature in internal units.
- Attribute_Definition_Source: ESRI
- Attribute_Domain_Values:
-
- Unrepresentable_Domain: Positive real numbers that are automatically generated.
- Attribute:
-
- Attribute_Label: Shape_Area
- Attribute_Definition: Area of feature in internal units (meters) squared.
- Attribute_Definition_Source: ESRI
- Attribute_Domain_Values:
-
- Unrepresentable_Domain: Positive real numbers that are automatically generated.
- Metadata_Reference_Information:
-
- Metadata_Date: 20140610
- Metadata_Contact:
-
- Contact_Information:
-
- Contact_Organization_Primary:
-
- Contact_Organization: U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey
- Contact_Person: Emmanuel Charles, Jessica Centinaro, Leila Johnson
- Contact_Address:
-
- Address_Type: mailing
- Address: 3450 Princeton Pike, Suite 110
- City: Lawrenceville
- State_or_Province: New Jersey
- Postal_Code: 08648
- Country: US
- Contact_Voice_Telephone: (609) 771-3900
- Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (609) 771-3915
- Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: dc_nj@usgs.gov
- Hours_of_Service: 8:00AM-4:30PM, Monday-Friday
- Contact_Instructions:
-
Go to the website: http://nj.usgs.gov Or email: dc_nj@usgs.gov Or phone: (609) 771-3900
- Metadata_Standard_Name: FGDC Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata
- Metadata_Standard_Version: FGDC-STD-001-1998
- Metadata_Time_Convention: local time
Generated by mp version 2.9.26 on Sat Jun 21 06:31:45 2014