Wetlands Inventory & Functional Assessments: Montgomery County, Maryland, 2005-2007
Data Downloads - Montgomery Planning
·
1988
Full Details
Full Details
Title
Wetlands Inventory & Functional Assessments: Montgomery County, Maryland, 2005-2007
Description
Commission staff performed wetland inventories and functional wetland assessments during the years of 2005-2007. Most of the work was in the Germantown Planning Area encompassing segments of three watersheds: Middle Great Seneca, Little Seneca, and Lower Great Seneca. The functional assessment used the indicators for the presence of wetlands suggested by the Corps in their 1987 Manual for Delineation of Wetlands, (US ACOE 1987. Wetlands must demonstrate three parameters: hydrophytic vegetation (plant life growing in water, soil, or on a substrate that is periodically deficient in oxygen due to excess water); presence of water and hydric soils (soils saturated, flooded, or ponded, long enough during the growing season to develop anaerobic conditions in the upper profile. Additional portions of this digital data files are records of wetlands location and classification as defined by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service's National Wetlands Inventory (NWI) program.
Creator
Maryland Department of Natural Resources, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Maryland Department of Natural Resources, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (1993). Wetlands Inventory & Functional Assessments: Montgomery County, Maryland, 2005-2007. Data Downloads - Montgomery Planning. https://montgomeryplanning.org/tools/gis-and-mapping/data-downloads (dataset)