Source Protection Area Generalized Coordinate system: 4269 - "NAD83" Abstract: This data set is a polygon coverage that can be used to identify the location of a Source Protection Area Generalized, a smoothed version of the technical Source Protection Planning Boundary (SPPB) that is owned by the Ministry of Environment (MOE). A Source Protection Area (SPA) is an area of land and water governed by a Source Protection Authority which defines the watershed area within which the terms of reference, assessment reports and source protection plans must be developed. A Source Protection Authority is the agency, person or body responsible for developing a Source Protection Plan. 'Generally, the source protection authority follows the same structure as the conservation authority boards, which are made up of members appointed by municipal councils.' Supplementary look-up table descriptions are available in the data description document, which is available for download from the additional documentation section.

Additional Documentation

• Metadata Information

  Language: eng; CAN

  Last Update: 2014-03-24

  Other Maintenance Requirements:

  67c0f01f-7a75-4e20-aa5e-ba24a4f4df9c

  Metadata Contact:

  Scholars Portal, Ontario Council of University Libraries Toronto Ontario, Canada

  Contact Instructions:

  gis@scholarsportal.info

  Metadata Standard:

  North American Profile of ISO19115:2003 - Geographic Information

• Citation Information

  
  
  

  Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources Peterborough Ontario, Canada

  Themes or Categories of the Resource: utilitiesCommunication

  Keywords:

  PLANNING, DEVELOPMENT, MUNICIPAL PLANNING, WATER MANAGEMENT, WATER, WATER ANAYLSIS, MUNICIPALITIES, WATER RESOURCES, BOUNDARY, WATERSHEDS, WATER RESOURCES INFORMATION PROGRAM, SOURCE WATER PROTECTION, HYDROLOGY, CONSERVATION, SOURCE PROTECTION AREA, SOURCE PROTECTION AUTHORITY, WATER CONSERVATION

  PLANNING, DEVELOPMENT, WATER MANAGEMENT, WATER, WATER ANALYSIS, WATER RESOURCES, Watersheds, HYDROLOGY, CONSERVATION

  Planning, Planification, Development, Développement, Municipalities, Municipalité, Water, Eau, Water management, Gestion de l'eau, Boundaries, Frontière, Watersheds, Bassin hydrologique, Water conservation, Conservation de l'eau, Hydrology, Hydrologie, Conservation, Conservation

  Place Keywords:

  Continent > North America > Canada > Ontario

  Purpose:

  This boundary is used in the management of watershed-based source protection plans, and provides the best science-based definition available where possible. Polygons are based on primary, secondary, tertiary and quaternary watershed boundaries with possible modifications by Source Protection Authorities and Municipalities where better terrain modeling data and expert local knowledge exists. A Source Protection Area (SPA) may be made up of multiple individual polygons each with its own landform, such as island, Watershed, Lake/River. The SPAGEN data class is available to the public for general use and cartographic applications. This cartographic version of the product maintains the resolution of the original SPPB data set, however the boundaries have been smoothed to create a more visually appealing product.

  Dataset Language: eng; CAN

  Status: completed

  Update Frequency: asNeeded

  Spatial Representation Type: vector

  Processing Environment:

  ESRI Arc GIS 9.2 Shape File.; Shapefile in SHP/DBF format

  Extent

  West Longitude: -90.841681

  East Longitude: -74.320104

  North Latitude: 49.308090

  South Latitude: 41.676551

  
  

  Supplemental Information:

  This data set (SPAGEN) directly supports Regulation 284/07 of the Clean Water Act (CWA) and is available to the public for general mapping and GIS applications. Under O.Reg 284/07 section 3, the Minister shall ensure that the boundary data and maps that show the approximate boundaries are available to the public on the Internet. Legislated or Legal Authority for Collection: Regulation 284/07 of the Clean Water Act. Additional Time Period Information: Version 2 - Update of North Bay-Mattawa and Quinte Regions, and some structural changes to the data class including some new lookup tables and attributing changes. Please see the latest SPAGEN SNIF Report on the LIO website for more information. Version 1 - Generalization of this layer is based on the CWA-regulated scientific version of the dataset, known as the Source Protection Planning Boundary, dated January 4th, 2008.

• Spatial Representation - Vector

  Geometric Objects:

  Object Type: composite

  Object Count: 118

• Reference System Information

  Reference System Identifier

  Value: 4269

  Code Space: http://www.epsg-registry.org/

• Data Quality Information

  Scope Level: dataset

  
  

  Conservation Ontario, Conservation Authorities: Conservation Authority Admin Area: Delineation provided by individual Conservation Authorities. Boundaries submitted by individual CAs, various scales, various projections and datums.

  Water Resources Information Program: Tertiary Watersheds: Water Resources Information Program Watersheds. Tertiary watersheds ArcGIS 8.3 coverageTertiary watershed divisions are 144 sub-divisions of the secondary watershed divisions. Tertiary divisions range in size from 700 square kilometres to 31,000 square kilometres. These polygon boundaries are available in hard copy from Environment Canada or as digital files from Ontario Hydro. For more information, see Watersheds of Ontario: Digital Representation of Primary to Quaternary Watershed Division for Ontario; L.J. Onisto, Ontario Hydro, 1993).WRIP - A Guide To The Provincial Watershed Project - Second Edition - Bates et al. 2002

  Water Resources Information Program: Quaternary Watershed: Water Resources Information Program Quaternary Watersheds. Created from Provincial DEM Version 2 information. Boundaries have been improved based on newer information. This was an interim raster product, which has since been incorporated in a Quaternary Watershed Version 2 product. Release Date: May/June 2008. Data collected on 01/06/2007. Quaternary watersheds are fourth level drainage areas. They are subdivisions of tertiary watersheds. WRIP - A Guide To The Provincial Watershed Project - Second Edition.pdf

  Conservation Ontario and select Source Protection Authorities: Local Knowledge and Expertise: Source Protection Authority boundary interpretations based on the best available data sources. Data collected on 01/01/2002. High resolution DTM / break lines obtained from various data sources (orthophotography, LIDAR etc) typically captured at 1 : 2 000 / 1 :4 000 scales. Revisions based on these sources were conducted and provided by the Source Protection Authority.

• Distribution Information

  Distributor:

  Ontario Geospatial Data Exchange, Ministry of Natural Resources (OMNR) Peterborough Ontario, Canada

• Related Links

  • Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources - Water Resources Information Program (WRIP)