WATERS Geospatial Data Downloads
Description
Geospatial data for EPA's Office of Water Programs, including 303(d) Impaired Waters, 305(b) Waters As Assessed and Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs) are available as prepackaged national downloads or as more current GIS web and and data services. EPA provides WATERS geospatial data in a variety of formats including Geographical Information Systems (GIS) compatible shapefiles and geodatabases, as well as ESRI and OGC web mapping services.
Current State Geospatial Data
You may download geospatial files representing the most up-to-date publicly available Water program data by State (or custom area) from EPA's Environmental Dataset Gateway (EDG) Clip N Ship Site. For ATTAINS 303(d) and 305(b) geospatial data, the Table of Available Cycles in the RAD lists the most recent ATTAINS cycle for which GIS data are available for each state.
National Geospatial Datasets
National geospatial datasets provided on this page are produced and periodically updated by EPA using state-submitted data. These datasets are created based on information in the Reach Address Database (RAD) on the date of extract. To be included in this dataset states and other jurisdictions must have submitted information to the program database and be indexed to NHDPlus reached hydrography. Due to the nature and complexity of providing a national snapshot of program data, EPA has provided a fact sheet to accompany and clarify the contents of each dataset.
ATTAINS Program Data
303(d) Listed Impaired Waters NHDPlus Indexed Dataset with Program Attributes |
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| Download Extracted on May 1, 2015 Changelog (Excel)(20 K) |
Shapefiles (153 MB) OGC GeoPackage (171 MB) ESRI 10.x File Geodatabase (98.9 MB) Attributes Only (Excel, 9 MB) |
| Metadata | Spatial and attribute metadata is located at the EPA Environmental Dataset Gateway. |
| Additional Information |
For this dataset as of 2014, Reach Address Database events have been indexed to NHDPlus v2.1 hydrology (previous versions utilized NHDPlus v1.0 hydrology). Fact Sheet (2 pp, 473 K, About PDF) 303(d) Listed Impaired Waters by Causes of Impairment and Probable Sources(1 pg, 35 K) Pollution Category summary document(21 pp, 604 K, About PDF) |
| Geospatial and Attribute Linkage Information | Use the provided ESRI_KEY for joining tables. Note that there is a many-to-many relationship between attributes and geospatial records. |
305(b) Waters As Assessed NHDPlus Indexed Dataset with Program Attributes |
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| Download Extracted on June 18, 2015 Changelog (Excel)(24 K) |
Shapefiles (353 MB) OGC GeoPackage (406 MB) ESRI 10.x File Geodatabase (240 MB) Attributes Only (Excel, 48 MB) |
| Metadata | Spatial and attribute metadata is located at the EPA Environmental Dataset Gateway. |
| Additional Information |
For this dataset as of 2014, Reach Address Database events have been indexed to NHDPlus v2.1 hydrology (previous versions utilized NHDPlus v1.0 hydrology). Fact Sheet Coming Soon 305(b) Assessed Waters by Assessed Uses Field Descriptions(2 pp, 21 K) |
| Geospatial and Attribute Linkage Information | Use the provided ESRI_KEY for joining tables. Note that there is a many-to-many relationship between attributes and geospatial records. |
2002 Impaired Waters Baseline NHDPlus Indexed Dataset |
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| Download Extracted on February 7, 2014 |
Shapefiles (128 MB) ESRI 10.x File Geodatabase (84 MB) |
| Metadata | Spatial metadata is located at the EPA Environmental Dataset Gateway. |
| Additional Information |
For this dataset as of 2014, Reach Address Database events have been indexed to NHDPlus v2.1 hydrology (previous versions utilized NHDPlus v1.0 hydrology). Fact Sheet(2 pp, 132 K, About PDF) Pollution Category summary document (21 pp, 604 K, About PDF) |
| Geospatial and Attribute Linkage Information | Selected attributes are included with the above downloads. |
Watershed Boundaries for the 2002 Impaired Waters Baseline |
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| Download Extracted on March 18, 2010 |
Shapefiles (154 MB) ESRI 9.3.1 File Geodatabase (83 MB) |
| Metadata | Metadata is located within the downloads. |
| Additional Information |
Fact Sheet(2 pp, 244 K, About PDF) |
Impaired Waters with TMDLs NHDPlus Indexed Dataset with Program Attributes |
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| Download Extracted on May 1, 2015 Changelog (Excel)(20K) |
Shapefiles (96 MB) OGC GeoPackage (110 MB) ESRI 10.x File Geodatabase (65 MB) Attributes Only (Excel, 8 MB) |
| Metadata | Spatial and attribute metadata is located at the EPA Environmental Dataset Gateway. |
| Additional Information |
For this dataset as of 2014, Reach Address Database events have been indexed to NHDPlus v2.1 hydrology (previous versions utilized NHDPlus v1.0 hydrology). Fact Sheet(2 pp, 333 K, About PDF) Pollution Category summary document (21 pp, 604 K, About PDF) |
| Geospatial and Attribute Linkage Information | Use the provided ESRI_KEY for joining tables. Note that there is a many-to-many relationship between attributes and geospatial records. |
Beaches NHDPlus Indexed Dataset |
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| Download Extracted on July 15, 2016 Changelog (Excel)(30.7 K) |
Shapefiles (3.2 MB) OGC GeoPackage (4 MB) ESRI 10.x File Geodatabase (3.3 MB) Attributes Only (Excel, 1 MB) |
| Metadata | Spatial and attribute metadata is located at the EPA Environmental Dataset Gateway. |
| Additional Information |
For this dataset as of 2014, Reach Address Database events have been indexed to NHDPlus v2.1 hydrology (previous versions utilized NHDPlus v1.0 hydrology). Fact Sheet(2 pp, 216 K, About PDF) |
| Geospatial and Attribute Linkage Information | Selected attributes are included with the above downloads. |
Water Quality Standards Program Data
303(c) Water Quality Standards NHDPlus Indexed Dataset
This is the final release of WQS as of December 2007. |
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| Download Extracted on March 18, 2010 |
Shapefiles (817 MB) ESRI 9.3.1 File Geodatabase (510 MB) |
| Metadata | Metadata is located within the downloads. |
| Additional Information | Refer to the WQSDB Date Table for information regarding dates of indexing. |
| Geospatial and Attribute Linkage Information | Relational key: RAD source_featureid = WQS wqs_entity_id |