{4A2F897E-E1E4-453E-9A29-674A520E4B92} eng; USA utf8 dataset Office of Water US EPA Headquarters 202-566-0385 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW MC 4503T Washington DC 20460 kramer.bill@epa.gov pointOfContact 2021-06-17 ISO 19115 Geographic Information - Metadata ISO 19115:2003/Cor.1:2006(E) EPA Office of Water (OW): Beaches NHDPlus Indexed Dataset 2016-06-24 publication 20160624 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Washington DC publisher US Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water originator mapDigital The Beaches Environmental Assessment and Coastal Health (BEACH) Program focuses on the following five areas to meet the goals of improving public health and environmental protection for beach goers and providing the public with information about the quality of their beach water: strengthening beach standards and testing, providing faster laboratory test methods-predicting pollution, investing in health and methods research, informing the public. Under the BEACH Act Grant Program states (including tribes and territories) are required to submit their beach monitoring (water quality), notification (advisory and closing), and beach location data to EPA. This dataset contains information on BEACH events that have been indexed to EPA's Reach Address Database (RAD). NHDPlus is a database that interconnects and uniquely identifies the millions of stream segments or reaches that comprise the Nation's surface water drainage system. NHDPlus provides a national framework for assigning reach addresses to water quality related entities, such as beach monitoring locations, beach advisories, beach closures, etc. Reach addresses establish the locations of these entities relative to one another within the NHDPlus surface water drainage network in a manner similar to street addresses. The assignment of reach addresses is accomplished through a process known as reach indexing. underDevelopment Bill Kramer U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water 202-566-0385 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. Room 6210-TT Mail Code 4305T EPA East Washington DC 20460 kramer.bill@epa.gov pointOfContact continual Cleanup Conservation Ecology Environment Health Human Recreation Water theme EPA GIS Keyword Thesaurus NHD beach BEACH locational data Beach Act waterbody beach data water program Beaches theme User United States place None https://edg.epa.gov/EPA_Data_License.html otherRestrictions Use Constraints: None. Please check sources, scale, accuracy, currentness and other available information. Please confirm that you are using the most recent copy of both data and metadata. Acknowledgement of the EPA would be appreciated. otherRestrictions Access Constraints: None. PUBLIC http://project-open-data.github.io/schema/#accessLevel Standard Technical Controls eng; USA environment health oceans -160 -64 17 50 2016-06-24 This is an EPA-produced data set. Additional information regarding this data set is available at: https://www2.epa.gov/beaches true Shapefile or File Geodatabase unknown Shapefile or File Geodatabase unknown ArcGIS Server Map Service unknown ArcGIS Server WMS Service unknown ArcGIS Server REST interface unknown ArcGIS Server SOAP interface unknown Office of Water US EPA Headquarters 202-566-0385 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW MC 4503T Washington DC 20460 kramer.bill@epa.gov distributor None https://watersgeo.epa.gov/arcgis/rest/services/OWRAD_NP21/BEACH_NP21/MapServer/ download Download The URL providing direct access to the downloadable dataset. download https://water.epa.gov/scitech/datait/tools/waters/data/downloads.cfm ESRI:ArcGIS API The endpoint of a web service to access the dataset (REST endpoint, WMS GetCapabilities URL, or a SOAP WSDL endpoint). webMapService https://water.epa.gov/scitech/datait/tools/waters/data/downloads.cfm Shapefile or File Geodatabase National Extracts - These static files reflect the information in the NHD Reach Address Database (RAD) on the date of extract. information https://edg.epa.gov/clipship/ Shapefile or File Geodatabase These spatial files represent the most up-to-date publicly available Water program data by State or arbitrary region from the Reach Address Database (RAD). information https://watersgeo.epa.gov/ArcGIS/rest/services/OWRAD_NP21/BEACH_NP21/MapServer/ ArcGIS Server Map Service information https://watersgeo.epa.gov/ArcGIS/services/OWRAD_NP21/BEACH_NP21/MapServer/WMSServer?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS ArcGIS Server WMS Service information https://watersgeo.epa.gov/ArcGIS/rest/services/OWRAD_NP21/BEACH_NP21/MapServer?f=json&pretty=true ArcGIS Server REST interface information https://watersgeo.epa.gov/ArcGIS/services/OWRAD_NP21/BEACH_NP21/MapServer?wsdl ArcGIS Server SOAP interface information dataset Horizontal Positional Accuracy Report See NHDPlus documentation for information on positional accuracy. Vertical Positional Accuracy Report See NHDPlus documentation for information on positional accuracy. Features represented have not been tested for completeness. Features represented have not been tested for completeness. Tests for integrity have not been performed. This lineage was generated by the FGDC CSDGM to 19139 transformation 1. CGI Federal, Assigns Beach ID a.) For a new beach, new beach id, new beach-to-ID relationship (e.g., split or merge), or deletion of beach ID, goto https://www.epa.gov/waterscience/beaches/grants/datausers/2008/ebeaches-location-sop.htm#one. b.) For refined location data only (e.g., latitude and longitude) with no beach ID change, go to https://www.epa.gov/waterscience/beaches/grants/datausers/2008/ebeaches-location-sop.htm#two 2. State Submit Location Data to PRAWN a.) The state uses the Beach ID(s) to submit location data to PRAWN, including latitude and longitude for beach start and end points. (Also see (https://www.epa.gov/waterscience/beaches/grants/datausers/2008/ebeaches-location-sop.htm#eight) for state submission of post-QA data to PRAWN). Past experience has shown that intermediate beach points will not likely be necessary, as the shape of the beach (and the length) is inherent in the RAD and underlying National Hydrographic Dataset (NHD). In any case, states that use these L/L data to perform their own reach indexing work (https://www.epa.gov/waterscience/beaches/grants/datausers/2008/ebeaches-location-sop.htm#three) should notify RTI immediately upon upload of location data to PRAWN, to alert RTI to look for separately e-mailed index shapefiles. [Note: The latitude and longitude or shape file will continue to be used to index the beach to the RAD to enable length calculation, relating to other data (e.g. permitted outfall locations), and hydrologic networking (e.g., modeling).]b.) CGI will make available a list of new or revised Beach IDs and their associated latitude and longitude points to RTI on at least the last workday of each month during the standard data loading timeframe (October through May). Outside of this timeframe, this will happen as needed. RTI Assists/Does Indexing Provides to NHD[expect all to use 3c for 2008]3. a.) RTI assists the states to add the Beach ID(s) to NHD Reach Indexing Tool (NHD-RIT) and to index the beaches to the NHD; for assistance contact RTI (owsupport@rti.org) at 800-844-0638); Information on NHD-RIT can be found. b.) Or, the state uses NHD-RIT to index (or re-index) the beach to the NHD. The state notifies RTI when they are done, and sends a shapefile. The state should send the NHD event shapefile to RTI as soon as possible when they upload the same latitude and longitude data that they used for indexing to PRAWN. c.) Or, with EPA approval from Bill Kramer (kramer.bill@epa.gov), the state could request that the latitude and longitude be reach indexed by RTI. 4. RTI creates Beach event tables or performs QA/QC on the state's NHD event shapefiles. a.) If 3b, then RTI works with the state to Q/A the session or file and sends a file to INDUS to use to update the RAD. b.) If 3c, then RTI performs reach indexing and performs internal QA/QC. RTI will send the event shapefile to INDUS for update of the RAD. INDUS Updates RAD and RTI Provides Calculated Lengths to PRAWN 5. INDUS updates the RAD, and notifies RTI and EPA. (The new or revised beach indexed location is shown in EnviroMapper displayed in BEACON upon completion of the NHD update). 6. RTI requests an extract of new and/or revised indexing, assures that the start/end points are for the whole beach and not individual NHD segments, and calculates Program_Interest_BeachLength associated with Beach ID, and sends to CGI for loading into PRAWN. CGI Assembles All Locational Data in PRAWN 7. CGI loads the file into PRAWN. PRAWN will assign "beaches and similar points of access" a default minimum nominal length for RAD calculated values. This will replace any shorter RAD length, and will only be used for allotment formula purposes. EPA Confirms All State Data Q/A for List of Beaches and Allotment Formula 8. EPA confirms with states that all location data updates from Q/A, or other changes to PRAWN, are completed by August. 9. Annually (September 2), EPA extracts from PRAWN a draft report "List of Beaches" with a table: by state, by beach, flagged if monitored, with latitude and longitude, state reported length, and RAD calculated length, with a separate table showing results of length calculations by state by five length groups and state total, and sends it to the states for Q/A. 10. Based on the Q/A, states and EPA make necessary corrections to PRAWN and/or RAD, as above. EPA Use of List of Beaches and Length Data 11. This data will be used as needed to publish the National List of Beaches and a length-based allotment formula; and will be posted on the Beach website. 12. The new and/or revised indexed location data are published on a beach-by-beach basis on BEACON [as displayed in EnviroMapper, see 5; updated in the RAD; and as entered into PRAWN, https://www.epa.gov/waterscience/beaches/grants/datausers/2008/ebeaches-location-sop.htm#seven] Source Contribution: NHDPlus v2.1 is the source of all reached indexed events in the EPA Reach Address Database.Source Type: online National Hydrography Dataset Plus - NHDPlus 2012-01-01 publication 2.10 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Washington DC publisher U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). originator mapDigital 2012-01-01 otherRestrictions Metadata Use Constraints: {4A2F897E-E1E4-453E-9A29-674A520E4B92} unknown 2018-06-24 This metadata was automatically generated from the FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata standard (version FGDC-STD-001-1998) using the 2024-02-09T11:11:00 version of the FGDC CSDGM to ISO 19139 transform. Office of Water US EPA Headquarters 202-566-0385 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW MC 4503T Washington DC 20460 kramer.bill@epa.gov pointOfContact