DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND GAME GIS METADATA COVERAGE NAME: cal2 LOCAL PATH: dfghost:/gdata1/project/calwater METADATA FILENAME: calwater.txt METADATA FILE DATE: September 5, 1995 METADATA AUTHOR: Paul Veisze This coverage is in development. Contact Teale Data Center for updates. COVERAGE DESCRIPTION Definition: CALWATER is a set of standardized watershed boundaries, nested into larger, previously standardized watersheds, meeting standardized delineation criteria. CALWATER is digital and exists as a 1:24000-scale, ARC/INFO GIS coverage (Brandow, 1995). Primary Contact: Clay Brandow Watershed Specialist California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection P.O. Box 944246 Sacramento, California 94244-2460 Phone: 916-227-2663 Fax: 916-227-2672 Email: clay@frrap1.cdf.ca.gov ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PROCESSING HISTORY Preliminary metadata for CA Dept. Fish and Game (cal0 version) forwarded to State of California Teale GIS Technology Center (Teale) on 6-20-95. Temporary edits currently being made to DFG copy, current copies will be sourced from Teale after 6-20-95. Updates: Corrected coding errors in IDNUM for consistency with HU, HA, and other CALWATER polygon codes; added an arc needed to separate HA 630.30 from HA 630.40, creating a new Planning Watershed in the process with IDNUM = 630.40053; generalized coverage cal0 with 2-meter weed tolerance; connected Terminal Island (Los Angeles Harbor) polygon to mainland portion of HSA 405.12 with an artificial "isthmus", as was done in Teale 500K version of SWRCB HSAs; similar edit performed on HSA 609.42 along California state border (Inyo County). Projection: Albers conic equal-area, Teale parameters ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ DATA DICTIONARY (applies to DFG cal2 version--current Teale version will be different) Arc: items cal2.aat (only non-standard items described) COLUMN ITEM NAME WIDTH OUTPUT TYPE N.DEC DESCRIPTION 29 ARCID 4 5 B - unique id (based on $recno of CAL0 as of 6-20-95; MAX = 20905) 33 LEVEL 1 1 I - identifies highest level in CALWATER hierarchy at which arc functions: 0 = California State boundary 1 = Hydrologic Region (R) 2 = Hydrologic Unit (U) 3 = Hydrologic Area (A) 4 = Hydrologic Sub-area (S) 5 = Super-Planning Watershed (P) 6 = Planning Watershed (W) (see .PAT use of abbeviations in parentheses) 34 CALBY 1 1 I - flag for state boundary; same as LEVEL = 0. ----- Arc: items cal2.pat (only non-standard items described) COLUMN ITEM NAME WIDTH OUTPUT TYPE N.DEC DESCRIPTON 17 IDNUM 10 10 N 5 CALWATER-assigned id 27 REGION 1 1 I - SWRCB Hydrologic Region 28 HU 2 2 I - Hydrologic Unit 30 HA 1 1 I - Hydrologic Area 31 HSA 1 1 I - Hydrologic Sub-Area 32 SPWS 2 2 I - Super-Planning Watershed 34 PWS 1 1 I - Planning Watershed 35 NAME 35 35 C - CALWATER-assigned name 70 MAG 1 1 C - CA Mines and Geology code 71 SYM 3 3 I - Symbol code 74 ACRES 4 12 F 0 converted from sq.meters Items below aggregate REGION, HU, HA, HSA, SPWS, and PWS for polygon dissolving and for relating to data tables in PC-ARC/INFO and PC-ARCVIEW environments where INFO redefined items (normally used on workstations) are not recognized. Workstation users may find polygon selections easier with these integers as well, particularly when codes are read from SWRCB hardcopy maps. 78 R 1 1 I - same as REGION 79 RU 3 3 I - REGION+HU 82 RUA 4 4 I - REGION+HU+HA 86 RUAS 5 5 I - REGION+HU+HA+HSA 91 RUASP 7 7 I - REGION+HU+HA+HSA+SPWS 98 RUASPW 8 8 I - REGION+HU+HA+HSA+SPWS+PWS ----- CONTACTS DFG Contact: Paul Veisze Email: pveisze@dfg.ca.gov Phone: 916-323-1667 Teale Contact: Lee Neher | lee@gislab.teale.ca.gov Teale Data Center - GIS lab | voice: (916)263-1321 Sacramento, Calif., USA | fax: (916)263-1346