Central Lake Erie Sub-area Inland Waters Spill Response Atlas
Surface Water Intake Coverage

Metadata:

• Identification_Information
• Data_Quality_Information
• Spatial_Data_Organization_Information
• Spatial_Reference_Information
• Entity_and_Attribute_Information
• Distribution_Information
• Metadata_Reference_Information

Identification_Information:

Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: Great Lakes Commission

Publication_Date: 20000428

Title:

Central Lake Erie Sub-area Inland Waters Spill Response Atlas

Edition: Final, Version 1

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: Atlas

Series_Information:

Series_Name: Inland Waters Spill Response Atlas

Issue_Identification: Sub-area

Publication_Information:

Publication_Place: Chicago, Illinois

Publisher: U.S. EPA, Region 5

Description:

Abstract:

The Surface Water Intake Coverage provides mapped locations of local water intake facilities. It also includes an ordered database of information linked to these mapped facilities. Knowledge of water intake facilities is imperative for a quick and effective response to potential oil spill situations. This coverage helps to bring such areas within the Ohio counties of Ashtabula, Cuyahoga, Lake and Lorain, as well as portion of the Pennsylvania counties of Erie and Crawford, to the attention of spill planners and responders. The locations of these facilities were obtained and quality assured/quality controlled using maps and individual feedback from various public agencies and private sector groups regarding specific sites.

Purpose:

In order to better protect unique commercial, environmental, and cultural resources from oil spills, the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 mandated a coordinated effort by federal, state, and local regulatory agencies and the regulated community to enhance oil spill preparedness and response. This coverage provides the location and attached data for the 6 counties of the Central Lake Erie Sub-area. The development of spatial databases and geographic information systems is done pursuant to implementing the preparedness and response mandates of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990.

Supplemental_Information:

These data were prepared at map scales of 1:24,000 and are best used in applications of comparable resolution. In addition, these data were developed to meet specific project objectives related to contingency planning and spill response and therefore may not represent exhaustive feature inventories.

Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Range_of_Dates/Times:

Beginning_Date: 19990101

Ending_Date: 20000428

Currentness_Reference: The Publication Date

Status:

Progress: Complete

Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: As Needed

Spatial_Domain:

Bounding_Coordinates:

West_Bounding_Coordinate: -82.3484

East_Bounding_Coordinate: -80.52

North_Bounding_Coordinate: 41.9774

South_Bounding_Coordinate: 41.065

Keywords:

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: None

Theme_Keyword: Water Intakes

Theme_Keyword: Potable Water Intakes

Theme_Keyword: Non-potable Water Intakes

Theme_Keyword: Public Water Supply Intakes

Theme_Keyword: Industrial Water Intakes

Place:

Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: None

Place_Keyword: Ohio

Place_Keyword: Pennsylvania

Access_Constraints: None

Use_Constraints: None

Point_of_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: Thomas Rayburn

Contact_Organization: Great Lakes Commission

Contact_Position: Project Manager, Area Contingency Planning

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: Mailing and Physical Address

Address: 400 Fourth Street

Address: The Argus II Building

City: Ann Arbor

State_or_Province: Michigan

Postal_Code: 48103-4816

Country: US of A

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 734-665-9135

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 734-665-4370

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: glc@great-lakes.net

Hours_of_Service: 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM, Monday-Friday

Contact_Instructions: Unavailable

Data_Set_Credit: Great Lakes Commission

Security_Information:

Security_Classification_System: None

Security_Classification: Unclassified

Security_Handling_Description: None

Native_Data_Set_Environment: PC ArcView 3.2

Cross_Reference:

Citation_Information:

Originator: Great Lakes Commission

Publication_Date: 20000428

Title:

Central Lake Erie Sub-area Inland Waters Spill Response Atlas

Edition: Final, Version 1

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: Atlas

Series_Information:

Series_Name: Inland Waters Spill Response Atlas

Issue_Identification: Sub-area

Publication_Information:

Publication_Place: Chicago, Illinois

Publisher: U.S. EPA, Region 5

Data_Quality_Information:

Attribute_Accuracy:

Attribute_Accuracy_Report:

Great Lakes Commission staff working on the Area Contingency Planning project verified all descriptive and spatial attributes and collected confirmation from owners and/or managers of attributes and boundaries via surveys or direct external review. Spatial data were cross-referenced with multiple sources. Quality assurance and quality control for the data were developed utilizing in-house standard operating procedures.

Logical_Consistency_Report:

Data were developed for this layer utilizing primary sources, primarily federal, state, local and private owners/operators. Initial data were supplied by state regulatory agencies overseeing surface water intakes in hard copy and electronic formats. Data and locational information were surveyed through the owners/operators and the locational features were corrected to assure features, such as surface water intakes, were located on surface waters at the 1:24,000 scale on the appropriate base map. An exhaustive external review process was performed by the primary holders of data. Location and attribute information is only as accurate and complete as the information specifically applies to each individual record at the time of data development. Data for these surface water intake facilities are attributed points, plotted in ArcView 3.1 GIS. These polygons were originally generated in 1999 based on current information form primary sources but not necessarily always exactly overly the base map 7.5 minute quadrangle maps with previous publication dates. Locational and attribute information was updated during the Fall of 1999 and Winter of 2000 prior to the final Atlas publication.

Completeness_Report:

This coverage does not necessarily include all surface water intake facilities within the sub-area. Primarily, the state regulatory agencies overseeing the surface water intakes provided the initial source and accurately portray these facilities, but not necessarily all facilities. Also, temporary or intermittent withdraws for agricultural purposes will be represented. This layer represents available data as of 1999. Exhaustive efforts were made to compile as thorough an atlas as possible.

Positional_Accuracy:

Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy:

Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy_Report:

Horizontal positional accuracy is tested by visual comparison of hard copy check plots to the source materials and verifying the location of the data on screen relative to other data layers in the same geographic area. Point shapefiles have been placed on the water. Where the current .drgs are dated, points may appear to be placed on the land but have actually been located per the owner/ operator instructions. The points represented are for the intake themselves and not the facility.

Lineage:

Source_Information:

Source_Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator:

Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of Water

Publication_Date: 1998

Title: Water Withdrawl Facility Registration Program

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: Document

Series_Information:

Series_Name: Unknown

Issue_Identification: Unknown

Publication_Information:

Publication_Place: Columbus, Ohio

Publisher: Ohio Department of Natural Resources

Type_of_Source_Media: Paper

Source_Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Range_of_Dates/Times:

Beginning_Date: 19990101

Ending_Date: 20000428

Source_Currentness_Reference: Publication Date

Source_Citation_Abbreviation: None

Source_Contribution: Contact and locational information

Source_Information:

Source_Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator:

Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection

Publication_Date: 2000

Title: Pennsylvania Facilities Analysis System

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: On-line

Series_Information:

Series_Name:

<http://www.dep.state.pa.us/external_gis/> gis_home.htm

Issue_Identification: Unknown

Publication_Information:

Publication_Place: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

Publisher:

Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection

Type_of_Source_Media: Electronic

Source_Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Range_of_Dates/Times:

Beginning_Date: 19990101

Ending_Date: 20000428

Source_Currentness_Reference: Publication Date

Source_Citation_Abbreviation: None

Source_Contribution: Contact and locational information

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

Initial data for the "Surface Water Intakes" layer were developed from databases prepared by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of Water from permitting records. Either hard copy or electronic information was utilized, including Internet sources citing the intake locations and attribute information was extracted as applicable. The 7.5 minute quadrangle maps, as digital raster graphics, were also used as a base layer for locational information. The data were developed by the Great Lakes Commission and surveys were prepared for submission for each known surface water intake. The surveys were completed and returned to the Commission by the applicable owners/operators of the facilities. Additional phone and mail correspondence was also used to fill in applicable data gaps in the preperation of the draft atlas. The data was plotted in a GIS using ESRI's ArcView 3.1 and displayed against the digital raster imagery at a scale of 1:24,000. Data links were incorporated into these GIS files to match the mapped sites to the appropriate data record as outlined in Section 5.2.1, Entity and Attribute Overview. Draft hardcopy atlases were prepared form this data, supplied by the Great Lakes Commission, and the USGS's Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center (UMESC) in Onalaska, Wisconsin. The UMESC produced hardcopy maps in portable document files (.pdf) format at scales of 1:25,000 and 1:100,000. These maps were then reproduced and distributed by the Great Lakes Commission for external review by primary source data holders. All updated, corrected, and amended information was then added to the project files and returned to UMESC for final Atlas preparation. UMESC processed the final data for distribution via CD-ROM and the Internet. Final electronic formats include ArcView 3.2 shapefiles, .e00 ArcExport files, .pdfs, and converted CAMEO/Landview files.

Process_Date: 20000428

Process_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: Thomas Rayburn

Contact_Organization: Great Lakes Commission

Contact_Position: Project Manager, Area Contingency Planning

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: Mailing and Physical Address

Address: 400 Fourth Street

Address: The Argus II Building

City: Ann Arbor

State_or_Province: Michigan

Postal_Code: 48103-4816

Country: US of A

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 734-665-9135

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 734-665-4370

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: glc@great-lakes.net

Hours_of_Service: 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM, Monday-Friday

Contact_Instructions: Unavailable

Spatial_Data_Organization_Information:

Direct_Spatial_Reference_Method: Point

Point_and_Vector_Object_Information:

SDTS_Terms_Description:

SDTS_Point_and_Vector_Object_Type: Point

Spatial_Reference_Information:

Horizontal_Coordinate_System_Definition:

Planar:

Grid_Coordinate_System:

Grid_Coordinate_System_Name:

Universal_Transverse_Mercator:

UTM_Zone_Number: 17

Transverse_Mercator:

Longitude_of_Central_Meridian: -81

Latitude_of_Projection_Origin: 0

False_Easting: 500000

False_Northing: 0

Scale_Factor_at_Central_Meridian: .9996

Geodetic_Model:

Horizontal_Datum_Name: North American Datum of 1927

Ellipsoid_Name: Clarke 1866

Semi-major_Axis: 6378206.4

Denominator_of_Flattening_Ratio: 294.98

Entity_and_Attribute_Information:

Overview_Description:

Entity_and_Attribute_Overview:

Data items provided for, include: FACIL_NAME - Facility name; OPERATOR - Name of the facility operator; EMERG_PHON - 24-hour emergency telephone number; WATERBODY - Waterbody from which the water is drawn; RIVER_MILE - River mile location of intake structure, denoted by the descending bank, as applicable (e.g. 000.0LBD); WATER_USE - Purpose for water withdrawal; COUNTY - County in which the intake is located; STREET - Street address of where the intake is located; CITY - City, or nearest, where the intake is actually located; STATE - State in which the intake is located; ZIP_CODE - Zip code for the intake facility street address; CNCT_PHON - A non-emergency telephone number for the facility; TWSP_RANGE - Location of the intake by township and range locators (e.g., T00N_R00W), or township proper name; SECTION - Location by section, where available; LATITUDE - Latitude of the intake structure expressed in decimal degrees (e.g. 00.0000); LONGITUDE - Longitude of the intake structure expressed in decimal degrees (e.g. 00.0000); LOC_DESC (1-4) - Location description of the intake (e.g. legal description or street directions); INTK_INFO - Number of intakes and depth of intake ports; SEASON - Indicates whether the water is withdrawn year-round or on a seasonal basis and designates the season; STORE_TIME - Indicates whether the facility has back-up water reserves should the intake port needs to be closed. Reserve capacity is expressed as either a volume or a length of time during which the facility could go off line; ALT_SOURCE - Name and/or description of any back-up water source that may be drawn upon if the primary source is unavailable; POP_SERVED - Number of people served by the water intake (public water supplies, power plants); COMMENT (1-4) - Additional information about the intake; REF_NUMBER - Reference number serving as a unique identifier for each database record; ACCURACY - An upgradeable accuracy code for each database record: 1=Excellent - collected/verified at a scale of 1:1 to 1:20,000 or differentially corrected GPS, 2=Very Good - collected/verified at a scale of 1:20,001 to 1:60, 000 or non-differentially corrected GPS, 3=Good - collected/verified at a scale of 1:60,001 to 1:200,000, 4=Fair - collected/verified at a scale of 1:200,001 to 1:1,000,000, 5=Coarse - Unknown collection method/unverified or collected at a scale of greater than 1:1,000,000; VERIFIER - Name of the group that verified the data (Great Lakes Commission [GLC]); VERIF_DATE - Date on which the record accuracy was verified (MM/DD/YY); ADM_ADDR [1-3] - Administrative mailing address for the intake operator. This field should contain an administrative mailing address and contact phone number for the facility. Please note that the administrative mailing address and the contact address may not be the same.

Entity_and_Attribute_Detail_Citation:

Database items and definitions are from: Inland Area Contingency Planning Effort Database Field Structures, published September 17, 1999, by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency-Region 5, the U.S. Geological Survey-Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center, the Great Lakes Commission, and the Upper Mississippi River Basin Association.

Distribution_Information:

Distributor:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: Thomas Rayburn

Contact_Organization: Great Lakes Commission

Contact_Position: Project Manager, Area Contingency Planning

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: Mailing and Physical Address

Address: 400 Fourth Street

Address: The Argus II Building

City: Ann Arbor

State_or_Province: Michigan

Postal_Code: 48103-4816

Country: US of A

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 734-665-9135

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 734-665-4370

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: glc@great-lakes.net

Hours_of_Service: 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM, Monday-Friday

Contact_Instructions: Unavailable

Distribution_Liability:

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. This disclaimer applies both to individual use of the data and aggregate use with other data. It is strongly recommended that these data are directly acquired from a U.S. Geological Survey server, and not indirectly through other sources which may have changed the data in some way. It is also strongly recommended that careful attention be paid to the contents of the metadata file associated with these data. The U.S. Geological Survey shall not be held liable for improper or incorrect use of the data described and/or contained herein.

Metadata_Reference_Information:

Metadata_Date: 19990423

Metadata_Review_Date: 20000428

Metadata_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: Thomas Rayburn

Contact_Organization: Great Lakes Commission

Contact_Position: Project Manager, Area Contingency Planning

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: Mailing and Physical Address

Address: 400 Fourth Street

Address: The Argus II Building

City: Ann Arbor

State_or_Province: Michigan

Postal_Code: 48103-4816

Country: US of A

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 734-665-9135

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 734-665-4370

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: glc@great-lakes.net

Hours_of_Service: 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM, Monday-Friday

Contact_Instructions: Unavailable

Metadata_Standard_Name:

NBII Content Standard for National Biological Information Infrastructure Metadata

Metadata_Standard_Version: FGDC-STD-001-1998

Metadata_Access_Constraints: None

Metadata_Use_Constraints: None

Metadata_Security_Information:

Metadata_Security_Classification_System: None

Metadata_Security_Classification: Unclassified

Metadata_Security_Handling_Description: None