Park River watershed GIS project
Jonathan Gourley
Environmental Science Program
Trinity College Hartford, CT
Several students have started a project this fall (2006) in ENVS 286 (GIS) that focuses on building a digital map set of the Park River watershed. We have worked closely with Mary V. Rickel Pelletier from Parkriver.org who is interested in using GIS to answer questions about land use and future management of open space along the Park River.
We are now able to share the GIS layers that we have constructed from Connecticut DEP shapefiles. For the original shapefiles please refer to the DEP GIS webpage. All coordinate systems and projects have been maintained from the original DEP data. More data will be organized here from other sources as it becomes available.
For non-ArcGIS users we plan to build a map set soon that can be viewed with the free ArcReader software available from ESRI.
Park River shapefiles for ArcGIS
click on links to download zipped folders of individual shapefile
layers.
|
Description |
file |
|
Watershed Layers |
|
| Simple outline polygon of the Park River watershed | PR_outline.zip |
| Outline of watershed with all tributaries included | PR_outline_trib.zip |
| Outlines of rivers, brooks and lakes | PR_hydroline2005.zip |
| Polygons of larger water bodies (lakes, rivers, swamps) | PR_hydrography.zip |
|
Political/Infrastructure Layers |
|
| town boundaries within PR watershed | PR_towns.zip |
| Roads within Park River watershed | PR_roads.zip |
| Municipal property within the Park River watershed | PR_muni_property.zip |
| DEP property within the Park River watershed | PR_DEP_property.zip |
| Railroads within Park River watershed | PR_railroads.zip |
| Polygon file of sewer system extent | |
|
Geologic materials Layers |
|
| Bedrock geology of Park River watershed | PR_bedrock.zip |
| Soils of Park River watershed | PR_soils.zip |
| Quaternary geology of PR watershed | PR_quaternary.zip |
|
Environmental Layers |
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| Wastewater Leachate point source discharges | PR_leachate_discharge.zip |
| Wastewater Leachate lines | PR_leachate_lines.zip |
questions or comments about the data? Please email me at jonathan.gourley@trincoll.edu
special thanks to:
Dave Tatem (Trinity College Academic computing)
GIS students who have worked on this project:
Elizabeth McCarthy (2007)
Cate Rigoulot (2008)
Christopher Mercurio (2010)
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