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The Upper Wetlands Boundary/Upper Wetlands Limit data is composed of two wetlands limit lines mapped in two separate NJDEP mapping programs. Those arcs identified as the Upper Wetlands Boundary (UWB) were delineated under the Wetlands Act of 1970 (N.J.S.A. 13:9A-1 et seq). The intent of this act was to regulate development in tidal wetlands of the state. The initial task outlined in the legislation was to identify and map where those tidal wetlands existed in the state. The tidal wetlands delineations were based on the presence of 25 common tidal marsh species, as well as the extent of tidally flowed bare ground. Areas delineated in the original program extend from Trenton on the Delaware River, south around the Cape May Peninsula, and then north to Perth Amboy on the Arthur Kill. UWB delineations under this program were officially promulgated, and the original UWB arcs form a legal regulatory boundary line. While tidally influenced areas do exist north of Perth Amboy, these areas were not mapped in this program due to funding constraints. In 1987, New Jersey passed the Freshwater Wetlands Protection Act (N.J.S.A. 13:9B-1). As part of the requirements of that act, the NJDEP was required to map all non-tidal wetlands of the state, as they existed on 1986 photo basemaps in a separate freshwater wetlands (FWW) mapping program. As tidal areas of the state were already under tidal wetlands regulations, they were to be excluded from the FWW regulations and from the FWW mapping program. Since the UWB, where it existed, was the regulatory boundary for the tidal wetlands program, it was incorporated into the FWW maps to identify the lower, or seaward, limit of the areas under FWW jurisdiction and mapping. All areas below the UWB were excluded from the FWW program; all areas above the UWB were to be mapped. Where the UWB had not been delineated, a functionally similar line was delineated from the 1986 products used in the FWW mapping to separate tidal from non-tidal areas. As with the UWB, areas below, or seawards, of this line were not mapped under the FWW program. However, since this new line was not delineated through the same procedures as the original UWB, and is not a promulgated regulatory line, it is not to be considered analogous to the UWB. To distinguish this new line from the original UWB, it has been given a new name, the Upper Wetlands Limit (UWL). The data layer also includes another type of coded line. To clarify the UWB delineation along the Atlantic coast barrier island area, the land/water interface as delineated in a 1986 land use/ land cover mapping project was also included. These arcs are identified as COASTLINE in the data set. These arcs do represent any delineations based on vegetation or other parameters associated with the UWB or UWL. Both of these lines were digitized as part of the FWW mapping program, and the UWB/UWL data layer has been extracted from the FWW maps, as described in the Process Steps.

Advisory: C1 Waters are a reselect of the Surface Water Quality Standard's (SWQS) CATEGORY attribute. The information contained in this metadata record reflects the SWQS data. As stated in this metadata record's Use Constraints section, NJDEP makes no representations of any kind, including, but not limited to, the warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular use, nor are any such warranties to be implied with respect to the digital data layers furnished hereunder. NJDEP assumes no responsibility to maintain them in any manner or form. By downloading this data, user agrees to the data use constraints listed within this metadata record. This data is a digital representation of New Jersey's Surface Water Quality Standards in accordance with "Surface Water Quality Standards for New Jersey Waters" as designated in N.J.A.C. 7:9 B. The Surface Water Quality Standards (SWQS) establish the designated uses to be achieved and specify the water quality (criteria) necessary to protect the State's waters. Designated uses include potable water, propagation of fish and wildlife, recreation, agricultural and industrial supplies, and navigation. These are reflected in use classifications assigned to specific waters. The line-work has been broken/altered to reflect the descriptions specified at N.J.A.C. 7:9B-1.15. When interpreting the stream classifications and anti-degradation designations, the descriptions specified in the SWQS at N.J.A.C. 7:9B-1.15 always take precedence. The GIS layer reflects the stream classifications and anti-degradation designations adopted as of the publication date and is supplemental only and is not legally binding.

The Bureau of Nonpoint Pollution Control within the Division of Water Quality issues NJPDES general permits authorizing discharges from Tier A and Tier B municipalities, as well as public complexes, and highway agencies that discharge stormwater from Municipal Separate Storm Sewer Systems (MS4s). As a required in Part IV.C.1&2 of the MS4 permit issued in 2017, permittees are required to develop, update, and maintain an inventory and map of, at a minimum, stormwater facilities identified in Part IV.C.1.b and located within the municipality. Tier A Municipalities are required to develop, update, and maintain an outfall pipe map showing the location of the end of all MS4 outfall pipes which discharge to a surface water body.

The data represents an intersection between the Purveyor Service Areas for New Jersey and the address point layer constructed by NJOIT found here: https://njogis-newjersey.opendata.arcgis.com/documents/newjersey::address-points-for-nj-next-gen-911-fgdb/about. All data points from the address point layer layer are kept. Points that do not intersect a Purveror Service Area are noted as such.

The Coastal Water Quality Network (CWQN) and Barnegat Bay Long-term Monitoring (BBLT) were created to comply with the mandate established by the federal Clean Water Act, Food Drug Administration, and/or Governor’s Comprehensive Plan. BBLT is an extension of the Barnegat Bay Ambient Monitoring program which was established as part of the Governor’s Comprehensive Plan that ended in 2013. The purpose of this long-term monitoring network is to monitor on-going quality of the bay and its tributaries. Emphasis is placed on the tributaries that are believed to have the most significant impacts/loading to the bay, as well as diverse land use types. The primary goal of these programs is to assess the nutrient conditions of New Jersey’s coastal waters, evaluate changes in water quality in the Barnegat Bay watershed over time and identify areas undergoing nutrient enrichment. The availability of water quality data provided by this program provides environmental managers and researchers with data to better understand relationships of both anthropogenic and natural ecological impacts on water quality. The data and their assessment results will lead to practical policy and decision making to address coastal water quality problems.This map was developed for use in the NJDEP Coastal Water Quality Network which can be viewed by clicking here.

This data set contains protected open space and recreation areas owned in fee simple interest by the State of New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP). Types of property in this data layer include parcels such as parks, forests, historic sites, natural areas and wildlife management areas. The data was derived from a variety of source maps including tax maps, surveys and even hand-drafted boundary lines on USGS topographic maps. These source materials vary in scale and level of accuracy. Due to the varied mapped sources and methods of data capture, this data set is limited in its ability to portray all open space lands accurately, particularly the parcels purchased prior to 1991.

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This is a report of all records used to plot values on an interactive map on NJ Office of State Comptroller website showing expenditures related to Superstorm Sandy.

Through its Natural Heritage Database, the Office of Natural Lands Management (ONLM) documents rare plant species and rare ecological community habitat to inform decision-makers who need to address the conservation of natural resources. The Natural Heritage Grid Map is a geographic information system (GIS) file that provides a general portrayal of the geographic locations of rare plant species and rare ecological communities for the entire state without providing sensitive detailed information. It does not contain data for animal species. The Natural Heritage Grid Map was produced using computer-generated vector-based polygons that divide the boundary lines of each USGS 1:24,000 scale topographic map into 100 grid cells, each cell being between 358 and 372 acres in size. If a rare plant species or ecological community has been documented from anywhere within a cell, the entire cell will be coded as containing an occurrence of a rare plant species/ecological community. An associated data table can be linked or related to the NHPGRID table in order to display information about the individual rare plant species/ecological community occurrences within any cell.

New_Jersey_1971_78_Digitized_Shoreline.zip features a digitized historic shoreline for the New Jersey coastline (Point Pleasant, NJ to Longport, NJ) from 1971 to 1978. Imagery of the New Jersey coastline was acquired from the New Jersey Geographic Information Network (NJGIN) as two images: “1970 NJDEP Wetlands Basemap” (1971-78) and the “1977 Tidelands Basemaps” (1977-78). These images are available as a web mapping service (WMS) through the NJGIN website (https://njgin.state.nj.us/NJ_NJGINExplorer/jviewer.jsp?pg=wms_instruct). To reduce digitizing error, the imagery was acquired on a hard drive from the NJGIN via personal communication. Using ArcMap 10.3.1, the "1970 NJDEP Wetlands Basemap" was used to delineate and digitize historical foreshore, backshore, mainland, and island shoreline positions, with the “1977 Tidelands Basemaps” being used to fill in missing shorelines and clarify areas of uncertainty from the 1970s imagery. These shorelines were digitized for use in long-term sho ...

These data provide an accurate high-resolution shoreline compiled from imagery of Port of Trenton, NJ . This vector shoreline data is based on an office interpretation of imagery that may be suitable as a geographic information system (GIS) data layer. This metadata describes information for both the line and point shapefiles. The NGS attribution scheme 'Coastal Cartographic Object Attribute...

This Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) compliant Web Map Service (WMS) includes a mosaic of historical USGS topographic maps of New Jersey surveyed from 1881 to 1924. This product is to be used for reference purposes only. The original historical paper maps were distorted or damaged to varying degrees due to age and use. During visual testing, it appeared that spatial inaccuracies in the images exceed 200 feet in several locations. The digital product has not been corrected for distortion nor vertical displacement. Consequently, this product does not meet the National Standard for Spatial Data Accuracy (NSSDA). The mosaic was produced by scanning 15 minute (1:62,500 scale) historical USGS topographic paper maps at 600 dpi and saving them as Tagged Image File Format (TIFF) images. The scanned TIFFs have an approximate pixel resolution of 17 feet. The map images were georeferenced to a fishnet in their native coordinate system and then reprojected to NAD83 NJ State Plane coordinates for use in this service. In most client software, the default spatial reference system of the service will be Geographic Coordinates, WGS84. Several other coordinate systems are supported natively by the WMS (see Supplemental Information).

All residents of the State of New Jersey have a right to live, learn, work, and recreate in a clean and healthy environment. Environmental justice requires fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, color, national origin, or income, in the development, implementation and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations and policies. This goal can only be achieved when everyone enjoys the same degree of protection from environmental and health hazards and has equal access to the decision-making processes in the places they live, learn, and work, and recreate.Historically, New Jersey’s low-income communities and communities of color historically have been subjected to a disproportionately high number of environmental and public health stressors—including mobile sources of pollution, and numerous industrial, commercial, and governmental stationary sources of pollution. Further compounding this inequity, New Jersey’s overburdened communities (OBCs) often lack important environmental benefits, such as quality green and open spaces, sufficient tree canopy, or adequate stormwater management.

This spatial layer is a subset of the New Jersey state parcel dataset to be used for reference in identifying and locating NJDEP Tidelands activities. The parcels in this feature class are selected by an intersection with the Tidelands Grid feature class, identified as containing a connection to a Tidelands Activity with a definition query, then are exported out and appended to this dataset.

The Bureau of Nonpoint Pollution Control within the Division of Water Quality issues NJPDES general permits authorizing discharges from Tier A and Tier B municipalities, as well as public complexes, and highway agencies that discharge stormwater from Municipal Separate Storm Sewer Systems (MS4s). As a required in Part IV.C.1&2 of the MS4 permit issued in 2017, permittees are required to develop, update, and maintain an inventory and map of, at a minimum, stormwater facilities identified in Part IV.C.1.b and located within the municipality. Tier A Municipalities are required to develop, update, and maintain an outfall pipe map showing the location of the end of all MS4 outfall pipes which discharge to a surface water body.

The statewide composite of parcels (cadastral) data for New Jersey was developed during the Parcels Normalization Project in 2008-2014 by the NJ Office of Information Technology, Office of GIS (NJOGIS.) The normalized parcels data are compatible with the NJ Department of the Treasury system currently used by Tax Assessors. This composite of parcels data serves as one of NJ's framework GIS datasets. Stewardship and maintenance of the data will continue to be the purview of county and municipal governments, but the statewide composite will be maintained by NJOGIS.Parcel attributes were normalized to a standard structure, specified in the NJ GIS Parcel Mapping Standard, to store parcel information and provide a PIN (parcel identification number) field that can be used to match records with suitably-processed property tax data. The standard is available for viewing and download at https://geoapps.nj.gov/njgin/parcel/NJGIS_ParcelMappingStandardv3.2.pdf. This feature class includes only those minimal attributes. The statewide property tax table is available as a separate download "MOD-IV Tax List Search Plus Database of New Jersey" or combined with the parcels as a separate download "Parcels and MOD-IV Composite of New Jersey." Also available separately are countywide parcels and tables of property ownership and tax information extracted from the NJ Division of Taxation database.The polygons delineated in this dataset do not represent legal boundaries and should not be used to provide a legal determination of land ownership. Parcels are not survey data and should not be used as such. Please note that these parcel datasets are not intended for use as tax maps. They are intended to provide reasonable representations of parcel boundaries for planning and other purposes. Please see Data Quality / Process Steps for details about updates to this composite since its first publication.***NOTE*** For users who incorporate NJOGIS services into web maps and/or web applications, please sign up for the NJ Geospatial Forum discussion listserv for early notification of service changes. Visit https://nj.gov/njgf/about/listserv/ for more information.

Please note that this file is large, ~150 MB, and may take a substantial amount of time to download especially on slower internet connections.Shapefile (NJ State Plane NAD 1983) download: Click "Open" or Click hereThis data was created by combining two separate data sets, the land use/land cover layer from the Integrated Terrain Unit Maps (ITUM) for this county and the freshwater wetlands (FWW) layer generated under the New Jersey Freshwater Wetlands Mapping Program. The Arc/INFO LULC coverage has been converted to an ArcView shapefile for distribution. The ITUM land use/land cover was photo interpreted from 1986 color infrared (CIR) 1:58000 aerial photos, and delineated using a modified Anderson et al. 1976, classification system to 1:24000 rectified photo-basemaps. These basemaps complied with National Map Accuracy Standards (NMAS) as individual quadrangles but were not produced from a sophisticated aero-triangulation photogrammetric solution. Minimum mapping unit = 2.5 acres. The ITUM land use/land cover was integrated with three other sources (soils, USGS floodprone areas, and 1906 Atlas Sheet Geology) based on coincident features. The four data layers have subsequently been split out into four separate themes for distribution and use. Beginning in 1998, the NJDEP does not support the data as a single integrated ITUM theme but rather as four separate themes. Freshwater wetlands delineations were made on 1986 orthophoto quarterquad basemaps (1:12000) by photo interpretation of 1986 CIR photos. The classification system used was a modified Cowardin system (Cowardin, et al., 1979). All freshwater wetland polygons greater than 1 acre in area and all linear freshwater wetland features greater than 10 feet in width were mapped. The 1986 quarterquad basemaps meet NMAS and are orthophotos.

Note: The original version was signed into adoption on October 11, 2006 and a notice appeared in the NJ register on November 6, 2006 NJ. This is a graphical representation of the States Sewer Service Area (SSA) mapping. The SSA mapping shows the planned method of wastewater disposal for specific areas, i.e. whether the wastewater will be collected to a regional treatment facility or treated on site and disposed of through a Surface Water (SW) discharge or a groundwater (GW) discharge. Areas not specifically mapped represent either water features where no construction will occur or land areas that default to individual subsurface disposal systems discharging less than 2,000 gallons/day (gpd) where the site conditions and existing regulations allow. This mapping, in conjunction with the text of the associated Water Quality Management Plan (WQMP), is used to make consistency determinations under the Water Quality Management (WQM) Planning rules, N.J.A.C. 7:15. The SSA mapping is prepared under the Water Quality Management (WQM) Planning rules, N.J.A.C. 7:15 in conjunction with the Statewide WQM Plan, which together constitute the Continuing Planning Process conducted pursuant to the Water Quality Planning Act, N.J.S.A. 58:11A-1 et seq., the Water Pollution Control Act, N.J.S.A. 58:10A-1 et seq., and N.J.S.A. 13:1D-1 et seq., and as required by Sections 303(e) and 208 of the Federal Clean Water Act (33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq.)

UST Facilities are points representing sites with Underground Storage Tanks regulated by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) under N.J.A.C. 7:14B. The coordinates used to identify the UST Facility locations were obtained from the SRP Program Interest level. The layer includes UST registration, tanks, and inspection information. The NJDEP New Jersey Environmental Management System (NJEMS) serves as the database that supplies coordinates and descriptive attributes to generate this GIS layer. This layer is produced primarily for the NJDEP NJ-GeoWeb interactive mapping web application and ArcGIS users. The locations in the layer represent main entrance or front door locations for the UST facilities. The majority (approximately 80%) of the UST facilities locations were captured using differential GPS. Users should note that not every UST facility has an established coordinate in NJEMS (GPS or otherwise). This means that additional UST facilities may exist, but not mapped. NJDEP is continually working to acquire the locations of these with GPS, location data submitted to permitting programs, and through address matching techniques. This dataset is updated nightly.

The wetlands polygons included in this data set are extracted from the Land Use 2007 layer. Displayed are all polygons that have a TYPE07 code of 'WETLANDS'. While these wetland delineations are not regulatory lines, they represent important resource data in identifying potential wetland areas. The 2007 LU/LC data set is the fourth in a series of land use mapping efforts that was begun in 1986. Revisions and additions to the initial baseline layer were done in subsequent years from imagery captured in 1995/97, 2002 and 2007. This present 2007 update was created by comparing the 2002 LU/LC layer from NJ DEP's Geographical Information Systems (GIS) database to 2007 color infrared (CIR) imagery and delineating and coding areas of change. Work for this data set was done by Aerial Information Systems, Inc., Redlands, CA, under direction of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP), Bureau of Geographic Information System (BGIS). LU/LC changes were captured by adding new line work and attribute data for the 2007 land use directly to the base data layer. All 2002 LU/LC polygons and attribute fields remain in this data set, so change analysis for the period 2002-2007 can be undertaken from this one layer. The classification system used was a modified Anderson et al., classification system. An impervious surface (IS) code was also assigned to each LU/LC polygon based on the percentage of impervious surface within each polygon as of 2007. Minimum mapping unit (MMU) is 1 acre. ADVISORY: This metadata file contains information for the 2007Land Use/Land Cover (LU/LC) data sets, which were mapped by Watershed Management Area (WMA). There are additional reference documents listed in this file under Supplemental Information which should also be examined by users of these data sets. As stated in this metadata record's Use Constraints section, NJDEP makes no representations of any kind, including, but not limited to, the warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular use, nor are any such warranties to be implied with respect to the digital data layers furnished hereunder. NJDEP assumes no responsibility to maintain them in any manner or form. By downloading this data, user agrees to the data use constraints listed within this metadata record.