Scotts Bluff National Monument Water Quality GIS Layers

National Park Service GIS layers compiled for a Baseline Water Quality Data Inventory and Analysis Report for Scotts Bluff National Monument. The data includes locations of water quality monitoring stations, industrial discharges, drinking intakes, gages, and impoundments, sourced from six EPA databases. Base layers such as roads, hydrography, and political boundaries are included, generally at a scale of 1:100,000.

Use Cases

• Mapping water quality monitoring station locations based on EPA STORET database data
• Analyzing potential pollution sources based on industrial facility discharge locations
• Assessing water resource infrastructure based on drinking water intake and water impoundment data
• Creating regional hydrographic maps based on River Reach File (RF3) Hydrography data
• Visualizing park infrastructure and boundaries for reports based on roads, trails, and political boundary layers

Strengths

• Data integrates information from six authoritative EPA national databases
• Includes multiple thematic GIS layers such as hydrography, roads, and political boundaries
• Scale is specified as generally 1:100,000 for the layers

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• The specific data layers included vary depending on availability

Provenance

Source

Department of the Interior, National Park Service Servicewide Inventory and Monitoring Program and Water Resources Division

Collection Method

Compiled from six United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) national databases for a specific park report.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-04 01:27:18.558982; freshness should be verified

Geography

Scotts Bluff National Monument