Data from Maine Department of Environmental Protection (MDEP)

All data in this directory is from MDEP and should not be redistributed or portrayed on maps outside of the USFWS without permission of MDEP.

Directory of \gis\me\mdep
name
description
date acq'd or developed
dams97 Shapefile of dams updated by MDEP for locational accuracy (to 24K data) and some additional dams added; 1:24K scale. Projected to NAD83 in dams97_nad83; no metadata. Original source is Army Corps of Engineers. Added field removed to indicate year of dam removal if applicable. 7/24/01
impounds Coverage of point location of dams, levees and impoundments. Final MDEP version of dams97 (above) but without removed dams. Shapefile moved to \gis\me\cv\impounds.shp 11/05 11\05
lakedpth Lake depth/bathymetry sample data for Maine lakes. Generated from MDEP and MDIFW field data. 2004
lakekpts Original MIDAS (State agency lake coding/numbering scheme) shapefile. See also lkindex.dbf and lksur90.dbf. See new shapefile, ponds_and_lakes below in the hydro directory. 2001 or earlier
maine_dams Scan of large wall map of Dams in Maine from former ME Office of Energy Resources, B. Elder, August 1987. PDF, bmp, tiff and jpeg formats; jpeg is georeferenced. Number beside each dam corresponds with the data provided in the Inventory of Existing and Former Dams in Maine. Scanned by the FWS ES New York Field office 2009. 1987
 
Directories:
evi Environmental Vulnerability Index maps. Four volume mapbook set depicting environmental resources along the Maine coast at risk from oil spilled into the marine environment. This directory on the GIS server includes the 4 mapbooks, legend, introduction pages and a link to the EVI website. 7/2007
groundwater Directory of groundwater data (public water, wells, groundwater hazard sites)
 
name
description
date acq'd or
developed
  GWSites Shapefile of groundwater hazard sites; no metadata. 5/2003
  PubWaterBedrock Shapefile of bedrock source water protection areas. 5/2003
  PubWaterIntakeBuff Shapefile of public water supplies supplied by surface water 5/2003
  PubWellBuff Shapefile of buffer zones for public drinking water wells. 5/2003
  PubWells Shapefile of wellhead protection areas for public drinking water wells. 5/2003
  PubWellTravel Shapefile of travel times of groundwater to public drinking water wells. 5/2003
hydro Directory of hydrology (streams, rivers, water classification, MIDAS, etc.)  
  coastal_waters_with_
water_class
Shapefile of coastal waters including water quality information; 1:24K. 12/2003
  ponds and lakes Point shapefile of ponds & lakes which have at some time been issued a MIDAS number by MDIFW, MDEP or MSPO. Updated version of lakepts shapefile above. See MDEP documentation (PDF). 12/2003
  ponds_and_lake_
points
Pond & lake features with names, MIDAS numbers, HUCs, etc. Updated version of lakepts shapefile above. See MDEP documentation (PDF). 12/2003
  rivers_with_water
_class
Shapefile of rivers including name and water quality classification; 1:24K. 12/2003
  streams_with
_water_class
Shapefile of streams including name and water quality classification; 1:24K. (renamed from streams_with_water_class) 12/2003
landcover   This directory contains data from the 2001/2004 land cover work with NOAA and state and federal partners. Some of the data is in the ME_LandCover.gdb file geodatabase.  
  documentation PDFs explaining the data and process.  
  melcd_2004_imperviousness Impervious data set (geo-tif)derived from 5 meter SPOT imagery collected in summer 2004. See metadata available in ArcCatalog. 2004
  melcd_2004_landcover Maine land cover data set primarily derived from 1999-2001 Landsat TM 5 and 7 imagery. NLCD 2001 with refinement by 2004 SPOT5 panchromatic imagery. 2004
  nlcd_2001_canopy_closure

nlcd_2001_canopy_change.tif - Change analysis from circa 1995 LandSat imagery to circa 2001; 30 meter.
nlcd_2001_canopy_closure.tif - Tree canopy closure for zone 66 (ME, parts of NH andVT); 30 meter.

2001
  nlcd_2001_imperviousness National Land Cover Data set of imperviousness; 30 meter. 2001
  nlcd_2001_landcover

nlcd_1995_landcover.tif - Land cover data set for zone 66; 30 meter cell size.
nlcd_2001_landcover.tif - Land cover data set for zone 66; 30 meter cell size.
nlcd_2001_landcover_change.tif - Change analysis between 1995 and 2001 data sets for zone 66; 30 meter.

2001
  older_data Thirteen land cover data sets (geo-tiffs) from GOMP, GAP, CCAP and NLCD.  
       
     

 


Last updated: September 1, 2009