Description: This layer contains a compilation of watershed improvement projects, both past and current, throughout the Raritan Watershed. The locations and attribute information for the projects were obtained from a variety of federal, state county and municipal agencies. Projections were checked for location accuracy using aerial imagery and adjusted as necessary using the available project description location and best judgement. Floodplain acquisitions were mapped using data available online from Blue Acres, parcel data and municipal records. After locations were verified and adjusted they were grouped into one of ten categories: pond restoration, wetland restoration, basin retrofit, cistern, floodplain acquisition, rain garden, reforestation, riparian buffer improvement, shoreline restoration, storm water treatment or stream restoration. Additional attributes contain contact information, project description, grant sourcing, and target waterbody and other descriptive details when available. Rain garden and rain barrel projects without any identifying locational information were not included in this dataset.
Copyright Text: New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, Bureau of Geographic Information Systems - New Jersey Boundary Data
Various county or municipal agencies - State-certified digital tax map data and digital parcel data
New Jersey Office of Information Technology, Office of Geographic Information Systems - municipal boundaries (lines) and municipalities (polygons) data
Ted Pallis and Jeff Hoffman - The 14-digit hydrologic units (HUC14s) in New Jersey
Watershed Improvement Project acquisition - Gillian Morello
Description: Best Management Practices (BMP) Data was obtained from the NRCS. These data are assigned a location by HUC12. This data was imported to a GIS to display the number of BMPs per HUC12. (See NRCS_BMP_descriptions for details regarding BMP type)
Copyright Text: BMP Data – Natural Resources Conservation Service
New Jersey Office of Information Technology, Office of Geographic Information Systems - county boundaries (lines) and county(polygons) data
Ted Pallis and Jeff Hoffman - The 12-digit hydrologic units (HUC12s) in New Jersey
Description: This layer contains a compilation of watershed improvement projects, both past and current, throughout the Raritan Watershed. The locations and attribute information for the projects were obtained from a variety of federal, state county and municipal agencies. Projections were checked for location accuracy using aerial imagery and adjusted as necessary using the available project description location and best judgement. Floodplain acquisitions were mapped using data available online from Blue Acres, parcel data and municipal records. After locations were verified and adjusted they were grouped into one of ten categories: pond restoration, wetland restoration, basin retrofit, cistern, floodplain acquisition, rain garden, reforestation, riparian buffer improvement, shoreline restoration, storm water treatment or stream restoration. Additional attributes contain contact information, project description, grant sourcing, and target waterbody and other descriptive details when available. Rain garden and rain barrel projects without any identifying locational information were not included in this dataset.
Copyright Text: New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, Bureau of Geographic Information Systems - New Jersey Boundary Data
Various county or municipal agencies - State-certified digital tax map data and digital parcel data
New Jersey Office of Information Technology, Office of Geographic Information Systems - municipal boundaries (lines) and municipalities (polygons) data
Ted Pallis and Jeff Hoffman - The 14-digit hydrologic units (HUC14s) in New Jersey
Watershed Improvement Project acquisition - Gillian Morello
Description: This layer contains a compilation of watershed improvement projects, both past and current, throughout the Raritan Watershed. The locations and attribute information for the projects were obtained from a variety of federal, state county and municipal agencies. Projections were checked for location accuracy using aerial imagery and adjusted as necessary using the available project description location and best judgement. Floodplain acquisitions were mapped using data available online from Blue Acres, parcel data and municipal records. After locations were verified and adjusted they were grouped into one of ten categories: pond restoration, wetland restoration, basin retrofit, cistern, floodplain acquisition, rain garden, reforestation, riparian buffer improvement, shoreline restoration, storm water treatment or stream restoration. Additional attributes contain contact information, project description, grant sourcing, and target waterbody and other descriptive details when available. Rain garden and rain barrel projects without any identifying locational information were not included in this dataset. These data were then grouped by HUC14 to show the total number of watershed improvement projects in each HUC14 within the Raritan Watershed.
Copyright Text: New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, Bureau of Geographic Information Systems - New Jersey Boundary Data
Various county or municipal agencies - State-certified digital tax map data and digital parcel data
New Jersey Office of Information Technology, Office of Geographic Information Systems - municipal boundaries (lines) and municipalities (polygons) data
Ted Pallis and Jeff Hoffman - The 14-digit hydrologic units (HUC14s) in New Jersey
Watershed Improvement Project acquisition - Gillian Morello