Attributes for NHDPlus Catchments (Version 1.1) for the Conterminous United States: Nutrient Inputs from Fertilizer and Manure, Nitrogen and Phosphorus (N&P), 2002

Michael E. Wieczorek Andrew E. LaMotte 2010 Attributes for NHDPlus Catchments (Version 1.1) for the Conterminous United States: Nutrient Inputs from Fertilizer and Manure, Nitrogen and Phosphorus (N&P), 2002 tabular digital data Digital Data Series DS-490-17 Reston, Virginia U.S. Geological Survey http://water.usgs.gov/lookup/getspatial?nhd_nutrients This data set represents the estimated amount of nitrogen and phosphorus in kilograms for the year 2002, compiled for every catchment of NHDPlus for the conterminous United States. The source data set is County-Level Estimates of Nutrient Inputs to the Land Surface of the Conterminous United States, 1982-2001 (Ruddy and others, 2006). The NHDPlus Version 1.1 is an integrated suite of application-ready geospatial datasets that incorporates many of the best features of the National Hydrography Dataset (NHD) and the National Elevation Dataset (NED). The NHDPlus includes a stream network (based on the 1:100,00-scale NHD), improved networking, naming, and value-added attributes (VAAs). NHDPlus also includes elevation-derived catchments (drainage areas) produced using a drainage enforcement technique first widely used in New England, and thus referred to as "the New England Method." This technique involves "burning in" the 1:100,000-scale NHD and when available building "walls" using the National Watershed Boundary Dataset (WBD). The resulting modified digital elevation model (HydroDEM) is used to produce hydrologic derivatives that agree with the NHD and WBD. Over the past two years, an interdisciplinary team from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA), and contractors, found that this method produces the best quality NHD catchments using an automated process (USEPA, 2007). The NHDPlus dataset is organized by 18 Production Units that cover the conterminous United States. The NHDPlus version 1.1 data are grouped by the U.S. Geologic Survey's Major River Basins (MRBs, Crawford and others, 2006). MRB1, covering the New England and Mid-Atlantic River basins, contains NHDPlus Production Units 1 and 2. MRB2, covering the South Atlantic-Gulf and Tennessee River basins, contains NHDPlus Production Units 3 and 6. MRB3, covering the Great Lakes, Ohio, Upper Mississippi, and Souris-Red-Rainy River basins, contains NHDPlus Production Units 4, 5, 7 and 9. MRB4, covering the Missouri River basins, contains NHDPlus Production Units 10-lower and 10-upper. MRB5, covering the Lower Mississippi, Arkansas-White-Red, and Texas-Gulf River basins, contains NHDPlus Production Units 8, 11 and 12. MRB6, covering the Rio Grande, Colorado and Great Basin River basins, contains NHDPlus Production Units 13, 14, 15 and 16. MRB7, covering the Pacific Northwest River basins, contains NHDPlus Production Unit 17. MRB8, covering California River basins, contains NHDPlus Production Unit 18. This spatial data set was created and used by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) specifically to estimate nitrogen and phosphorus inputs from manure and fertilizer per watershed segment in the application of the national SPAtially Referenced Regression On Watershed attributes (SPARROW) model . The SPARROW model relates in-stream water-quality measurements to spatially referenced characteristics of watersheds, including contaminant sources and factors influencing terrestrial and stream transport. The model empirically estimates the origin and fate of contaminants in streams, and quantifies uncertainties in these estimates based on model coefficient error and unexplained variability in the observed data. For more information on the USGS SPARROW model please refer to: http://water.usgs.gov/nawqa/sparrow/intro/intro.html. 2002 publication date Complete None planned -127.910792 -65.327751 51.657387 23.243486 None Nutrients Inlandwaters NHDPlus Catchment NAWQA SPARROW None Conterminous United States MRB Major River Basin MRB1 NEMA New England and Mid-Atlantic MRB2 SAGT South Atlantic-Gulf and Tennessee MRB3 GLMR Great Lakes, Ohio, Upper Mississippi, and Souris-Red-Rainy MRB4 MORI Missouri MRB5 LMTG Lower Mississippi, Arkansas-White-Red, and Texas-Gulf MRB6 COGB Rio Grande, Colorado, and Great Basin MRB7 PANW Pacific Northwest MRB8 CALI California None None Michael E. Wieczorek US Geological Survey, Maryland Water Science Center Geographer mailing address

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Baltimore MD 21228 USA 443-498-5550 mewieczo@usgs.gov 8:00am-4:30pm MST Please contact thru email http://water.usgs.gov/GIS/browse/nhd_nutrients_mrb.jpg Nutrient Inputs from Fertilizer and Manure, Nitrogen and Phosphorus (N&P), 2002 overlain on Major River Basins. jpg Microsoft Windows XP Version 5.1 (Build 2600) Service Pack 3; ESRI ArcCatalog 9.3.1.3000 Charles G. Crawford Pixie A. Hamilton Anne B. Hoos October 5, 2006 National Water-Quality Assessment Program--Modifications to the Status and Trends Network and Assessments of Streams and Rivers Reston, Virginia U.S. Geological Survey Prepared by Charlie Crawford, Pixie Hamilton, and Anne Hoos for a NAWQA National Liaison Meeting, Washington D.C., October 5, 2006 http://water.usgs.gov/nawqa/studies/mrb/mrb_factsheet.pdf none none U.S. Environmental Protection U.S. Geological Survey 2007 NHDPlus Catchments ( Version 1.1) for New England (Hydrologic Region 01) vector digital data Washington, D.C. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ftp://ftp.horizon-systems.com/NHDPlus/NHDPlusV1/NewEngland/NHDPlus01V01_01_Catshape.zip online 2007 publication date NHD The source data provided catchments for basin characterization for MRB 1. COMID is the unique item in NHDPlus that relates to the dbf files containing artificial drainage information. U.S. Environmental Protection U.S. Geological Survey 2007 NHDPlus Catchments ( Version 1.1) for the Mid-Atlantic (Hydrologic Region 02) vector digital data Washington, D.C. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ftp://ftp.horizon-systems.com/NHDPlus/NHDPlusV1/MidAtlantic/NHDPlus02V01_01_Catshape.zip online 2007 publication date NHD The source data provided catchments for basin characterization for MRB 1. COMID is the unique item in NHDPlus that relates to the dbf files containing artificial drainage information. U.S. Environmental Protection U.S. Geological Survey 2007 NHDPlus Catchments ( Version 1.1) for the South-Atlantic Gulf (Hydrologic Region 03) vector digital data Washington, D.C. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ftp://ftp.horizon-systems.com/NHDPlus/NHDPlusV1/SouthAtlanticGulf/NHDPlus03V01_02_Catshape.zip online 2007 publication date NHD The source data provided catchments for basin characterization for MRB 2. COMID is the unique item in NHDPlus that relates to the dbf files containing artificial drainage information. U.S. Environmental Protection U.S. Geological Survey 2007 NHDPlus Catchments ( Version 1.1) for the Great Lakes (Hydrologic Region 04) vector digital data Washington, D.C. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ftp://ftp.horizon-systems.com/NHDPlus/NHDPlusV1/GreatLakes/NHDPlus04V01_01_Catshape.zip online 2007 publication date NHD The source data provided catchments for basin characterization for MRB 3. COMID is the unique item in NHDPlus that relates to the dbf files containing artificial drainage information. U.S. Environmental Protection U.S. Geological Survey 2007 NHDPlus Catchments ( Version 1.1) for the Mississippi (Hydrologic Regions 05) vector digital data Washington, D.C. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ftp://ftp.horizon-systems.com/NHDPlus/NHDPlusV1/Mississippi/NHDPlus05V01_01_Catshape.zip online 2007 publication date NHD The source data provided catchments for basin characterization for MRB 3. COMID is the unique item in NHDPlus that relates to the dbf files containing artificial drainage information. U.S. Environmental Protection U.S. Geological Survey 2007 NHDPlus Catchments ( Version 1.1) for the Mississippi (Hydrologic Region 06) vector digital data Washington, D.C. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ftp://ftp.horizon-systems.com/NHDPlus/NHDPlusV1/Mississippi/NHDPlus06V01_01_Catshape.zip online 2007 publication date NHD The source data provided catchments for basin characterization for MRB 2. COMID is the unique item in NHDPlus that relates to the dbf files containing artificial drainage information. U.S. Environmental Protection U.S. Geological Survey 2007 NHDPlus Catchments ( Version 1.1) for the Mississippi (Hydrologic Region 07) vector digital data Washington, D.C. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ftp://ftp.horizon-systems.com/NHDPlus/NHDPlusV1/Mississippi/NHDPlus07V01_01_Catshape.zip online 2007 publication date NHD The source data provided catchments for basin characterization for MRB 3. COMID is the unique item in NHDPlus that relates to the dbf files containing artificial drainage information. U.S. Environmental Protection U.S. Geological Survey 2007 NHDPlus Catchments ( Version 1.1) for the Mississippi (Hydrologic Region 08) vector digital data Washington, D.C. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ftp://ftp.horizon-systems.com/NHDPlus/NHDPlusV1/Mississippi/NHDPlus08V01_01_Catshape.zip online 2007 publication date NHD The source data provided catchments for basin characterization for MRB 5. COMID is the unique item in NHDPlus that relates to the dbf files containing artificial drainage information. U.S. Environmental Protection U.S. Geological Survey 2007 NHDPlus Catchments ( Version 1.1) for the Souris-Red-Rainy (Hydrologic Region 09) vector digital data Washington, D.C. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ftp://ftp.horizon-systems.com/NHDPlus/NHDPlusV1/SourisRedRainy/NHDPlus09V01_01_Catshape.zip online 2007 publication date NHD The source data provided catchments for basin characterization for MRB 3. COMID is the unique item in NHDPlus that relates to the dbf files containing artificial drainage information. U.S. Environmental Protection U.S. Geological Survey 2007 NHDPlus Catchments ( Version 1.1) for the Mississippi (Hydrologic Region 10, Lower Missouri River) vector digital data Washington, D.C. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ftp://ftp.horizon-systems.com/NHDPlus/NHDPlusV1/Mississippi/NHDPlus10LV01_02_Catshape.zip online 2007 publication date NHD The source data provided catchments for basin characterization for MRB 4. COMID is the unique item in NHDPlus that relates to the dbf files containing artificial drainage information. U.S. Environmental Protection U.S. Geological Survey 2007 NHDPlus Catchments ( Version 1.1) for the Mississippi (Hydrologic Region 10, Upper Missouri River) vector digital data Washington, D.C. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ftp://ftp.horizon-systems.com/NHDPlus/NHDPlusV1/Mississippi/NHDPlus10UV01_01_Catshape.zip online 2007 publication date NHD The source data provided catchments for basin characterization for MRB 4. COMID is the unique item in NHDPlus that relates to the dbf files containing artificial drainage information. U.S. Environmental Protection U.S. Geological Survey 2007 NHDPlus Catchments ( Version 1.1) for the Mississippi (Hydrologic Region 11) vector digital data Washington, D.C. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ftp://ftp.horizon-systems.com/NHDPlus/NHDPlusV1/Mississippi/NHDPlus11V01_01_Catshape.zip online 2007 publication date NHD The source data provided catchments for basin characterization for MRB 5. COMID is the unique item in NHDPlus that relates to the dbf files containing artificial drainage information. U.S. Environmental Protection U.S. Geological Survey 2007 NHDPlus Catchments ( Version 1.1) for the Texas Gulf (Hydrologic Region 12) vector digital data Washington, D.C. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ftp://ftp.horizon-systems.com/NHDPlus/NHDPlusV1/TexasGulf/NHDPlus12V01_02_Catshape.zip online 2007 publication date NHD The source data provided catchments for basin characterization for MRB 5. COMID is the unique item in NHDPlus that relates to the dbf files containing artificial drainage information. U.S. Environmental Protection U.S. Geological Survey 2007 NHDPlus Catchments ( Version 1.1) for the Rio Grande (Hydrologic Region 13) vector digital data Washington, D.C. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ftp://ftp.horizon-systems.com/NHDPlus/NHDPlusV1/RioGrande/NHDPlus13V01_02_Catshape.zip online 2007 publication date NHD The source data provided catchments for basin characterization for MRB 6. COMID is the unique item in NHDPlus that relates to the dbf files containing artificial drainage information. U.S. Environmental Protection U.S. Geological Survey 2007 NHDPlus Catchments ( Version 1.1) for the Colorado (Hydrologic Region 14) vector digital data Washington, D.C. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ftp://ftp.horizon-systems.com/NHDPlus/NHDPlusV1/Colorado/NHDPlus14V01_01_Catshape.zip online 2007 publication date NHD The source data provided catchments for basin characterization for MRB 6. COMID is the unique item in NHDPlus that relates to the dbf files containing artificial drainage information. U.S. Environmental Protection U.S. Geological Survey 2007 NHDPlus Catchments ( Version 1.1) for the Colorado (Hydrologic Region 15) vector digital data Washington, D.C. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ftp://ftp.horizon-systems.com/NHDPlus/NHDPlusV1/Colorado/NHDPlus15V01_01_Catshape.zip online 2007 publication date NHD The source data provided catchments for basin characterization for MRB 6. COMID is the unique item in NHDPlus that relates to the dbf files containing artificial drainage information. U.S. Environmental Protection U.S. Geological Survey 2007 NHDPlus Catchments ( Version 1.1) for the Great Basin (Hydrologic Region 16) vector digital data Washington, D.C. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ftp://ftp.horizon-systems.com/NHDPlus/NHDPlusV1/GreatBasin/NHDPlus16V01_01_Catshape.zip online 2007 publication date NHD The source data provided catchments for basin characterization for MRB 6. COMID is the unique item in NHDPlus that relates to the dbf files containing artificial drainage information. U.S. Environmental Protection U.S. Geological Survey 2007 NHDPlus Catchments ( Version 1.1) for the Pacific Northwest (Hydrologic Region 17) vector digital data Washington, D.C. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ftp://ftp.horizon-systems.com/NHDPlus/NHDPlusV1/PacificNorthwest/NHDPlus17V01_02_Catshape.zip online 2007 publication date NHD The source data provided catchments for basin characterization for MRB 7. COMID is the unique item in NHDPlus that relates to the dbf files containing artificial drainage information. U.S. Environmental Protection U.S. Geological Survey 2007 NHDPlus Catchments ( Version 1.1) for California (Hydrologic Region 18) vector digital data Washington, D.C. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ftp://ftp.horizon-systems.com/NHDPlus/NHDPlusV1/California/NHDPlus18V01_01_Catshape.zip online 2007 publication date NHD The source data provided catchments for basin characterization for MRB 8. COMID is the unique item in NHDPlus that relates to the dbf files containing artificial drainage information. LaMotte, Andrew E. 2008 National Land Cover Database 2001 (NLCD01) Tile 1, Northwest United States: NLCD01_1 raster digital data Data Series DS-383A Reston, Virginia U.S. Geological Survey http://water.usgs.gov/GIS/metadata/usgswrd/XML/nlcd01_1.xml online 2001 ground condition nlcd01 The source data provided information on land use and land cover. LaMotte, Andrew E. 2008 National Land Cover Database 2001 (NLCD01) Tile 2, Northeast United States: NLCD01_2 raster digital data Data Series DS-383B Reston, Virginia U.S. Geological Survey http://water.usgs.gov/GIS/metadata/usgswrd/XML/nlcd01_2.xml online 2001 ground condition nlcd01 The source data provided information on land use and land cover. LaMotte, Andrew E. 2008 National Land Cover Database 2001 (NLCD01) Tile 3, Southwest United States: NLCD01_3 raster digital data Data Series DS-383C Reston, Virginia U.S. Geological Survey http://water.usgs.gov/GIS/metadata/usgswrd/XML/nlcd01_3.xml online 2001 ground condition nlcd01 The source data provided information on land use and land cover. LaMotte, Andrew E. 2008 National Land Cover Database 2001 (NLCD01) Tile 4, Southeast United States: NLCD01_4 raster digital data Data Series DS-383D Reston, Virginia U.S. Geological Survey http://water.usgs.gov/GIS/metadata/usgswrd/XML/nlcd01_4.xml online 2001 ground condition nlcd01 The source data provided information on land use and land cover. Ruddy, Barbara C. Lorenz, David L. Mueller, David K. 2006 County-Level Estimates of Nutrient Inputs to the Land Surface of the Conterminous United States, 1982-2001 tabular digital data Scientific Investigations Report 2006-5012 Reston, Virginia U.S. Geological Survey http://water.usgs.gov/nawqa-only/nuts/data/fertrev08/reports/report_sir2006_5012.pdf online 2006 publication date nutrients The source data provided information on nutrients. Acquired fertilizer and manure data tabulated by crop type and county from http://water.usgs.gov/nawqa-only/nuts/data/fertrev08. NLCD 2001 (LaMotte, 2008) was used to spatially apportion the tabular data. The following table describes the NLCD2001 classes used for each nutrient variable category of Nitrogen (N) and Phosphorus (P). Nutrient inputs LU Data Set LU Classes used to apportion nutrient inputs ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Farm fertilizer NLCD2001 81, 82 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Non-farm fertilizer NLCD2001 21, 22, 23 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Manure- unconfined NLCD2001 71, 81, 82 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Manure-confined NLCD2001 81, 82 Process Steps: 1) Downloaded NHDPlus catchment GRIDs that match the 30-meter NLCD01 resolution from http://www.horizon-systems.com/nhdplus 2) A nutrient intensity value was calculated for each county for Nitrogen and Phosphorus for each grouping above. To spatially apportion this value, a Nutrient_Intensity per GRID cell was calculated this way: Nutrient Intensity (kilograms) per GRID cell = Total kilograms of Nitrogen or Phosphorus for county/number of farm, non-farm, confined, or unconfined GRID cells per county. The resulting GRID is 30-meter resolution of nutrients in kilograms per 30-meter grid cell for farm, non-farm, confined, or unconfined land use types. 3) Summarized total nutrients by catchment using the ZONALSUM command in GRID. 4) Exported results into a dbf file format. 2008 COMID code nutrients dbf tabular dataESRI OID Internal feature number. ESRI Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated. COMID Unique ID to relate to the NHDPlus catchments NHDPlus Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated. MANC_N Sum total of Nitrogen from Manure in confined operations in kilograms U.S. Geological Survey 073776147 MANC_P Sum total of Phosphorus from Manure in confined operations in kilograms U.S. Geological Survey 01367657 MANU_N Sum total of Nitrogen from Manure in unconfined operations in kilograms U.S. Geological Survey 02769511 MANU_P Sum total of Phosphorus from Manure in unconfined operations in kilograms U.S. Geological Survey 0856876 FARM_N Sum total of Nitrogen from farm areas in kilograms U.S. Geological Survey 031272040 FARM_P Sum total of Phosphorus from farm areas in kilograms U.S. Geological Survey 0529222140 NOFARM_N Sum total of Nitrogen from non-farm areas in kilograms U.S. Geological Survey 01409156 NOFARM_P Sum total of Phosphorus from non-farm areas in kilograms U.S. Geological Survey 0197143.5 U.S. Geological Survey Ask USGS -- Water Webserver Team mailing address

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