CEMRI: Intensive Site: French Creek Watershed

Abstract:

This dataset presents the French Creek watershed as taken from State wide coverage of Pennsylvanis small watersheds.  French Creek is one of three subwatersheds in the Delaware River Basin that CEMRI is sampling and doing extensive research.

Purpose:

Educational

Currentness_Reference:

publication date

Attribute_Accuracy_Report:

Conforms to National Mapping Program Geospatial Data Standards.  Attribute accuracy has been checked by visual comparision against source materials and peer review at USGS and ERRI.

Entity_and_Attribute_Overview:

Pennsylvania watersheds info table includes,
WRDS# - stream code number of the Water Resources Data System database for PaDEP.
		  The code is a 5 digit integer between 00000 and 99999.  For example, 
		  the WRDS# 00833 is the Schuylkill River.  This code is used by PaDEP 
		  bureau databases to reference named streams for any activity related 
		  to streams, e.g. water-quality sampling, water-use surface-water withdrawals.
		  Codes can be found in the Pennsylvania Gazetteer of Streams.
Heirlevel - DEP identification of location stream in watershed waterway. 
		  1-11 are possible values, the lower the value the larger the drainage area
		  for the stream.
Heircode - DEP coding of relative location of the stream in the overall stream network
		  of the watershed.  The 15 digit number indicates the primary watershed and all
		  drainage basins that the stream flows through.  Both heirlevel and heircode are
		  subject to changes as edits are made to the DEP stream files.
HUC - USGS hydrologic unit code number and is defined as a numeric value with an input
        and output of eight.  This attribute has been approved for use by all Federal 
        agencies as a Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS).  The 8-digit HUC
        number has four specific codes within it: region, subregion, accounting unit, 
        and cataloging unit.  For example, the HUC number 02040106 is translated as:
               02 = Mid Atlantic region, 
               04 = Delaware River Basin subregion, 
               03 = Upper Delaware accounting unit, and 
               04 = Lehigh River cataloging unit. 
               By name, this example HUC is all drainage basins in the Lehigh River
               drainage basin.  Source of HUC codes is U.S.G.S. water supply-paper 2294

Entity_and_Attribute_Detail_Citation:

Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources & U.S. Geological Survey. 1989. Pennsylvania gazetteer of streams, Pa. D.E.R. 323 p. Seaber, Paul R. 1987. Hydrologic unit maps. U.S. Geological Survey. Water supply-paper 2294. 63 p. Note that Pa. DEP and ERRI are working on an update to the stream codes.