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Overlays/Watersheds (FeatureServer)

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Service Description: The term watershed is often applied to geographical areas of different sizes and scales. In general, the definition of a watershed is a geographic area in which water, sediments, and dissolved materials drain from higher elevations to a common low-lying outlet or basin discharging at a point on a larger stream, lake, underlying aquifer, or estuary. The largest watershed management unit is called a basin, which is a large drainage area related to a lake, river, or estuary, such as the Chesapeake Bay. Within each basin is a group of subbasins that can extend over hundreds of square miles. Maryland contains 13 subbasins, ten of which fall within the Chesapeake Bay basin and correspond to ten tributary basins often referred to as Maryland’s “6-digit” watersheds as defined by the Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR). Subbasins contain groups of watersheds, which typically range from 20 to 100 square miles in size and are composed of groups of subwatersheds that cover an area of approximately ten square miles or less. Maryland DNR has defined 138 watersheds, which are often referred to as Maryland’s “8-digit” watersheds. They collectively contain the approximately 1,100 subwatersheds referred to as “12-digit” watersheds. Any of these units may be referred to as watersheds, and depending on their size and location, contain a number of land uses including forests, streams, and other natural areas; agricultural and natural resource areas; urban, suburban, and rural communities; roadways and other transportation systems; commercial development and industry; and schools, hospitals, government offices and other public facilities. Water resource issues including water supply, water quality, and habitat for fish and wildlife are closely linked and interdependent with human land uses. How land and water resources are used have impacts on the entire bay watershed.

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Has Versioned Data: true

MaxRecordCount: 2000

Supported Query Formats: JSON

Supports Query Data Elements: true

Layers: Description: The term watershed is often applied to geographical areas of different sizes and scales. In general, the definition of a watershed is a geographic area in which water, sediments, and dissolved materials drain from higher elevations to a common low-lying outlet or basin discharging at a point on a larger stream, lake, underlying aquifer, or estuary. The largest watershed management unit is called a basin, which is a large drainage area related to a lake, river, or estuary, such as the Chesapeake Bay. Within each basin is a group of subbasins that can extend over hundreds of square miles. Maryland contains 13 subbasins, ten of which fall within the Chesapeake Bay basin and correspond to ten tributary basins often referred to as Maryland’s “6-digit” watersheds as defined by the Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR). Subbasins contain groups of watersheds, which typically range from 20 to 100 square miles in size and are composed of groups of subwatersheds that cover an area of approximately ten square miles or less. Maryland DNR has defined 138 watersheds, which are often referred to as Maryland’s “8-digit” watersheds. They collectively contain the approximately 1,100 subwatersheds referred to as “12-digit” watersheds. Any of these units may be referred to as watersheds, and depending on their size and location, contain a number of land uses including forests, streams, and other natural areas; agricultural and natural resource areas; urban, suburban, and rural communities; roadways and other transportation systems; commercial development and industry; and schools, hospitals, government offices and other public facilities. Water resource issues including water supply, water quality, and habitat for fish and wildlife are closely linked and interdependent with human land uses. How land and water resources are used have impacts on the entire bay watershed.

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Initial Extent: Full Extent: Units: esriFeet

Document Info: Enable Z Defaults: false

Supports ApplyEdits With Global Ids: false

Support True Curves : true

Only Allow TrueCurve Updates By TrueCurveClients : true

Supports Return Service Edits Option : true

Supports Dynamic Layers: false

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Supported Operations:   Query   Query Contingent Values   QueryDomains   Apply Edits   Extract Changes