Water: Source Water Protection
Delineation Tools Links
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- EPA's Office of Research and Development (ORD): WHPA Model
This model is a semi-analytical ground-water flow simulation program used for delineating capture zones in wellhead protection areas.
- EPA's Office of Water: Watershed Assessment, Tracking and Environmental Results, Reach File
Contains data from a series of national hydrologic databases that identify and interconnect the stream segments comprising the surface water drainage system.
- EPA's Office of Wetlands, Oceans, and Watersheds (OWOW): Surf Your Watershed
Surf Your Watershed contains sets of environmental data that can be queried to provide environmental profiles for specific watersheds.
- Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA): Mapping and Analysis Center
Provides mapping products available for presidential declared disasters and tropical storms/hurricanes.
- U.S. Department of the Interior: Geological Survey (USGS), Earth Science Information Center
A collection of educational resources, maps, and other sources of information that provide impartial scientific information to resource managers, planners, and other customers are available from this Web site. assessments.
- U.S. Department of the Interior: Geological Survey (USGS), Ground Water Atlas of the United States
Describes the location, extent, and geologic and hydrologic characteristics of many aquifers in the nation.
- U.S. Department of the Interior: Geological Survey (USGS), National Hydrography Dataset (NHD)
NHD is a comprehensive set of digital spatial data that contains information about surface water.
- U.S. Department of the Interior: Geological Survey (USGS), Water Resources of the United States, Hydrologic Unit Maps
Defines and explains Hydrologic Unit Maps and contains links to download specific hydrologic units names and numbers.