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36 Data Sets
  Data Set Name Description
1. AA and AAs Classified Watersheds in New York State
   No Login Required Data Set Details 		This dataset provides an approximation of the watershed boundaries of water bodies classified as AA and AAs in Title 6 of the Official Compilation of Codes, Rules and Regulations of the State of New York (6NYCRR) Part 800 et seq. and their tributaries. This information shall be used by the owner of a regulated construction activity to see if their project is eligible for coverage under the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation's State Pollutant Discharge Elimination Discharge System (SPDES) General Permit for Storm water Discharges from Construction Activity (see Part I.D.7. and 8. in GP-0-10-001). 
2. Accessible Outdoor Recreation Destinations
   No Login Required Data Set Details 		Accessible recreation sites throughout New York State that are owned, maintained or jointly managed by DEC. 
3. Air Monitoring
   No Login Required Data Set Details 		This dataset shows the location of each ambient air quality monitoring station currently being operated by the Bureau of Air Quality Surveillance (BAQS), Division of Air Resources, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. 
4. Bird Conservation Areas
   No Login Required Data Set Details 		This data set shows point locations of Bird Conservation Areas. Bird Conservation Areas are New York State lands that have been officially designated for their value to bird conservation. 
5. Breeding Bird Atlas (2000-2005)
   Data Set Details 		Depicts the distribution of breeding bird species in New York State, as recorded during the 2000-2005 Breeding Bird Atlas surveys. The Breeding Bird Atlas is a presence/absence survey. While a record of a species in a block is highly suggestive of its breeding presence there the lack of a record does not guarantee absence of the species as a breeder in the block. Atlasers were directed to work in a block until 76 species had been recorded; therefore the list of species reported breeding within a block was not intended to be comprehensive. 
6. Breeding Bird Atlas (2000-2005)
   Data Set Details 		Depicts the distribution of breeding bird species in New York State, as recorded during the 2000-2005 Breeding Bird Atlas surveys. The Breeding Bird Atlas is a presence/absence survey. While a record of a species in a block is highly suggestive of its breeding presence there the lack of a record does not guarantee absence of the species as a breeder in the block. Atlasers were directed to work in a block until 76 species had been recorded; therefore the list of species reported breeding within a block was not intended to be comprehensive. 
7. Bulk Storage Sites in New York State
   Data Set Details 		Point locations for: Chemical Bulk Storage Facilities pursuant to the Hazardous Substance Bulk Storage Law, Article 40 of ECL; And 6 NYCRR 595-599. Major Oil Storage Facilities pursuant to Article 12 of the Navigation Law. Petroleum Bulk Storage Facilities registered pursuant to title 10 of Article 17. 
8. Citizens Statewide Lake Assessment Program
   Data Set Details 		The dataset represents the lakes participating in the Citizen Statewide Lake Monitoring Assessment Program (CSLAP). CSLAP is a volunteer lake monitoring and education program that is managed by DEC and New York State Federation of Lake Associations (NYSFOLA).  
9. Dams
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Revised: February 2013
 This dataset is used to show the location of dams in New York State's inventory of dams, and lists selected attributes of each dam. 
10. DEC Lands and Campgrounds
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Revised: February 2013
 Lands under the care, custody and control of DEC, including Wildlife Management areas, Unique Areas, State Forests, Forest Preserve, and DEC-operated campgrounds.  
11. DEC Points of Interest
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Revised: March 2013
 Point data locating and differentiating assets on state lands. Assets represented as point features are man-made items, which require periodic maintenance or inspection. Examples include: custodial, asset, lean-to, parking lot, leanto, pit privy, campsite, trail structure, parking, primitive site, fire tower, scenic vista, picnic site, day use area, and others  
12. DEC Roads and Trails
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Revised: March 2013
 Line data locating and differentiating transportation corridors on state DEC lands.  
13. Digital Elevation Model
   Data Set Details 		A digital Elevation Model (DEM) contains a series of elevations ordered from south to north with the order of the columns from west to east. 
14. Ecological Zones
   No Login Required Data Set Details 		Boundaries of the Ecological Regions of New York State, taken from Will et. al. (1982) and Dickinson (1983). 
15. Hudson River Estuary Data and Maps
   No Login Required Data Set Details 		The NYSDEC Hudson River Estuary Program in collaboration with numerous partners has supported the mapping of biologic, chemical, and physical characteristics of the Hudson River Estuary. This effort has been organized through several separate projects including the Benthic Mapping Project that has mapped the physical environment, the Submerged Aquatic Vegetation Mapping Project that has mapped the extent of submerged aquatic vegetation, and the Biocriteria Project that has conducted extensive sampling of chemical contaminants in the sediments of the estuary floor as part of an effort to develop one or more biological indicators that can be used to assess the ecological condition of the estuary through long-term monitoring. Data products from these projects include remote sensing images, point sample data, and interpretive maps. 
16. Hudson River Estuary Documented Submerged Aquatic Vegetation
   No Login Required Data Set Details 		The NYSDEC Hudson River Estuary Program in collaboration with numerous partners has supported the mapping of vegetated habitats of the Hudson River Estuary. This data set contains polygons showing the distribution of submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV) from Hastings-on-Hudson to Troy. Data are a combination of layers from the 1997, 2002, and 2007 SAV data sets, representing a culmination of all areas where SAV habitat has been documented. 
17. Hudson River Estuary Submerged Aquatic Vegetation 2002
   No Login Required Data Set Details 		The NYSDEC Hudson River Estuary Program in collaboration with numerous partners has supported the mapping of vegetated habitats of the Hudson River Estuary. This data set contains polygons showing the distribution of submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV) from Hastings-on-Hudson to Troy. Data were interpreted from an aerial photo inventory acquired in 2002. 
18. Hudson River Estuary Submerged Aquatic Vegetation 2007
   No Login Required Data Set Details 		The NYSDEC Hudson River Estuary Program in collaboration with numerous partners has supported the mapping of vegetated habitats of the Hudson River Estuary. This data set contains polygons showing the distribution of submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV) from Hastings-on-Hudson to Troy. Data were interpreted from an aerial photo inventory acquired in 2007.  
19. Hudson River Estuary Tidal Wetlands 2007
   No Login Required Data Set Details 		The NYSDEC Hudson River Estuary Program in collaboration with numerous partners has supported the mapping of vegetated habitats of the Hudson River Estuary. This data set contains polygons showing the distribution of tidal wetlands from Hastings-on-Hudson to Troy. Data were interpreted from an aerial photo inventory acquired in 2007. 
20. Hudson River NERR Vegetation 2005
   No Login Required Data Set Details 		To characterize the 2005 vegetation communities of Iona Island, Piermont Marsh, Stockport Flats and Tivoli Bays for temporal trend analysis, invasive species monitoring, and reserve management purposes. 
21. Hudson River Significant Biodiversity Areas
   No Login Required Data Set Details 		The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) Hudson River Estuary Program worked with the New York Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit at Cornell University and the NY Natural Heritage Program to develop Significant Biodiversity Areas (SBAs) for the Hudson River estuary region of New York State. SBAs are 22 landscape areas with a high concentration of biological diversity or value for regional biodiversity.  
22. Lake Contour Maps
   No Login Required Data Set Details 		This is a point data set with a centroid for all the waterbodies in New York State that have had contour maps created and scanned. 
23. Matrix Forest Blocks and Linkages
   No Login Required Data Set Details 		Matrix sites are large contiguous areas whose size and natural condition allow for the maintenance of ecological processes, viable occurrences of matrix forest communities, embedded large and small patch communities, and embedded species populations. The goal of the matrix forest selection was to identify viable examples of the dominant forest types that, if protected and allowed to regain their natural condition, would serve as critical source areas for all species requiring interior forest conditions or associated with the dominant forest types.  
24. National Hydrography Dataset (NHD)
   Data Set Details 		The National Hydrography Dataset (NHD) is a comprehensive set of digital spatial data that contains information about surface water features such as lakes, ponds, streams, rivers, springs and wells. Within the NHD, surface water features are combined to form "reaches," which provide the framework for linking water-related data to the NHD surface water drainage network. 
25. North-South Hunting Zone Line
   No Login Required Data Set Details 		The east-west line that separates north and south hunting zones in New York State. 
26. Primary Aquifers - 1:24,000
   No Login Required Data Set Details 		This layer shows the location of primary aquifers in New York State. Primary aquifers are highly productive aquifers presently being utilized as sources of water supply by major municipal water supply systems. 
27. Public Fishing Recommended Sites
   No Login Required Data Set Details 		Includes two datasets which display the locations of top streams, rivers, lakes and ponds for fishing in New York State, as determined by fisheries biologists working for the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. 
28. Public Fishing Stream Parking Areas
   No Login Required Data Set Details 		This is a shapefile file that can be used with programs like Google Earth, Google Maps, and DEC's State Lands Interactive Mapper . It displays the locations public fishing stream parking areas in New York State. 
29. Remediation Sites in New York State
   Data Set Details 		The points in this file represent only the existence of a site which has cleanup currently, or has undergone cleanup under the oversight of DEC. This dataset includes a single point location for a subset of sites which are currently included in one of the Remedial Programs being overseen by the Division of Environmental Remediation. 
30. Significant Natural Communities
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Revised: January 2012
 Features represent occurrences of rare or high-quality natural communities (ecological communities), as recorded by the New York Natural Heritage Program. An occurrence is one natural community type at one location. Examples of community types include deep emergent marsh, red maple-hardwood swamp, dwarf shrub bog, hemlock-northern hardwood forest, and tidal creek. 
31. State Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
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Revised: October 2011
 The purpose of the State Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (SPDES) Program is to protect human Health and the environment. The SPDES permit program in the Department's Division of Water regulates municipal and industrial wastewater treatment facilities that discharge directly into navigable waters. 
32. Tidal Wetlands - NYC and Long Island
   No Login Required Data Set Details 		New York State tidal wetlands south of the Tappan Zee Bridge, as of 1974, for tidal wetlands trend analysis. 
33. Unconsolidated Aquifers at 1:250,000
   No Login Required Data Set Details 		These aquifers are those in upstate NY that consist of sand and gravel and yield large supplies of water to wells. Bedrock aquifers, although significant in some areas, are not addressed here. Source data is 1:250,000, same scale as the NYS Geological Survey surficial and bedrock geology maps on which they were based. Together these maps form a consistent set of geologic and groundwater maps for use in regional management of the groundwater resources of the State. Long Island is represented in the separate "Hydrogeologic Framework at 1:250,000 - Long Island, NY", published by USGS/NYSDEC. 
34. Water Inventory/Priority Waterbodies List
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Revised: November 2011
 The Waterbody Inventory/Priority Waterbodies List (WI/PWL) is an inventory of the state's surface water quality. The dataset provides a summary of general water quality conditions, tracks the degree to which a water body supports its designated uses, and monitors progress toward the identification and resolution of water quality problems, pollutants, and sources. The WI/PWL reports are produced for each of the 17 major drainage basins in the state on a schedule that allows each to be updated every 5 years. The review and updating of these reports include a public participation component. The data are displayed in four themes, representing the types of water bodies included on the WI/PWL. They include Shoreline, Rivers/Streams, Lakes/Reservoirs, and Estuary.  
35. Water Quality Classifications - NYS
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Revised: March 2013
 This data set provides the water quality classifications of New York State's lakes, rivers, streams and ponds, collectively referred to as water bodies. All water bodies in the state are provided a water quality classification based on existing, or expected best usage, of each water body or water body segment. Under New York State's Environmental Conservation Law (ECL), Title 5 of Article 15, certain waters of the state are protected on the basis of their classification. Streams and small water bodies located in the course of a stream that are designated as C (T) or higher (i.e., C (TS), B, or A) are collectively referred to as "protected streams." 
36. Water Wells
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Revised: April 2013
 This file shows locations and attributes for water wells in New York State. This information has been collected by DEC since April 2000 as required by law.