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US Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water
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EPA Office of Water (OW): Beaches PRAWN Attribute Data
20150204
tabular digital data
Washington, DC
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
https://www.epa.gov/waterdata/waters-geospatial-data-downloads
The Beaches Environmental Assessment and Coastal Health (BEACH) Program focuses on the following five areas to meet the goals of improving public health and environmental protection for beach goers and providing the public with information about the quality of their beach water: strengthening beach standards and testing, providing faster laboratory test methods-predicting pollution, investing in health and methods research, informing the public. Under the BEACH Act Grant Program states (including tribes and territories) are required to submit their beach monitoring (water quality), notification (advisory and closing), and beach location data to EPA.
This dataset contains selected beach attributes for beach records spatially indexed to EPA's Reach Address Database.
This is an EPA-produced data set. Additional information regarding this data set is available at: http://www2.epa.gov/beaches
2015
publication date
Continually
-180
180
90
-90
ISO 19115 Topic Category
environment
health
oceans
EPA GIS Keyword Thesaurus
Conservation
Ecology
Environment
Health
Human
Recreation
Water
User
NHD
beach
BEACH locational data
Beach Act
waterbody
beach data
water program
Beaches
None
United States
None.
Please confirm that you are using the most recent copy of both data and metadata. Acknowledgement of the EPA would be appreciated.
Bill Kramer
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water
mailing address
1200 Pennsylvania Ave. Room 6210-TT Mail Code 4305T
EPA East
Washington
DC
20460
202-566-0385
kramer.bill@epa.gov
FIPS Pub 199
No Confidentiality
Standard Technical Controls
Feature attribute data has not been tested for completeness.
Unknown
Unknown
Not presently available
Attribute data extracted from the PRAWN system.
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0.000001
0.000001
Decimal degrees
North American Datum of 1983
Geodetic Reference System 1980
6378137.000000
298.257222
Beach_Attributes
Beach Attribute Data
PRAWN
Beach_ID
Unique identifier for a beach.
PRAWN
Text value
Beach_Name
Common name for a beach.
PRAWN
Text value
Beach_County
Name of the county or equivalent entity in which the beach is located.
PRAWN
Text value
Beach_State
Name of the state or equivalent entity in which the beach is located.
PRAWN
Text value
Historical_ID_Flag
Y/N indicator of whether the beach is historical.
PRAWN
Text value
Beach_Access
Beach public accessibility status - values of Public or Private.
PRAWN
Text value
Owner_Access
Beach owner accessibility status - values of Public or Private.
PRAWN
Text value
Dormant_Status
Flag indicating the beach expected to be monitored or managed for at least a seaon - values of Dormant or empty.
PRAWN
Text value
ObjectID
Vendor managed numeric key
ESRI
1
2147483647
US EPA Headquarters
Office of Water
mailing address
1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW MC 4503T
Washington
DC
20460
202-566-0385
kramer.bill@epa.gov
Live Data and Maps
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Tabular Data
National Extracts
Zipped (compressed) file
https://www.epa.gov/waterdata/waters-geospatial-data-downloads
None
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20170204
Office of Water
US EPA Headquarters
mailing address
1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW MC 4503T
Washington
DC
20460
202-566-0385
kramer.bill@epa.gov
FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata
FGDC-STD-001-1998
local time
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