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    <citation>
      <citeinfo>
        <origin>Justin Saarinen</origin>
        <pubdate>20161001</pubdate>
        <title>Connecting River Systems Restoration Assessment Degree Flowlines (2016)</title>
        <geoform>Vector Digital Data Set (Polyline)</geoform>
        <pubinfo>
          <pubplace>Reston, VA</pubplace>
          <publish>U.S. Geological Survey</publish>
        </pubinfo>
        <onlink>https://doi.org/10.5066/F7SJ1HQ8</onlink>
        <lworkcit>
          <citeinfo>
            <origin>Justin Saarinen</origin>
            <origin>Kurt Kowalski</origin>
            <pubdate>20161001</pubdate>
            <title>Great Lakes Coastal Wetland Restoration Assessment</title>
            <geoform>GIS Data Service</geoform>
            <pubinfo>
              <pubplace>Mt. Pleasant, Wisconsin</pubplace>
              <publish>USGS WiM</publish>
            </pubinfo>
            <onlink>http://gis.wim.usgs.gov/arcgis/rest/services/GLCWRA/CRSRA_hydroCondition/MapServer/1</onlink>
          </citeinfo>
        </lworkcit>
      </citeinfo>
    </citation>
    <descript>
      <abstract>This represents the flowline network in Connecting River Systems Restoration Assessment (CRSRA). It is attributed with the number of disconnections between the reach and the connecting river system. These data will help identify the condition of hydrologic separation between potential restoration areas and the connecting river system. Low numbers represent fewer disconnections such as culverts between the reach and the rivers requiring no flow network modification to restore the area.</abstract>
      <purpose>Culverts cause the stream pathway to narrow, restricting movement of water, fish, and other wildlife throughout the system. Disconnections are important to model when determining the restorability of the wetlands because existing surface water features are connections between the lake and coastal areas were identified to be better for restoring coastal wetlands.</purpose>
    </descript>
    <timeperd>
      <timeinfo>
        <sngdate>
          <caldate>20161001</caldate>
        </sngdate>
      </timeinfo>
      <current>publication date</current>
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    <status>
      <progress>Complete</progress>
      <update>As needed</update>
    </status>
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        <eastbc>-82.394688288</eastbc>
        <northbc>43.240079298</northbc>
        <southbc>42.036914624</southbc>
      </bounding>
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    <keywords>
      <theme>
        <themekt>U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, 1999, Standards for National Hydrography Dataset (http://mapping.usgs.gov/standards/)</themekt>
        <themekey>FWHydrography</themekey>
        <themekey>Hydrography</themekey>
        <themekey>Stream / River</themekey>
        <themekey>Lake / Pond</themekey>
        <themekey>Canal / Ditch</themekey>
        <themekey>Reservoir</themekey>
        <themekey>Spring / Seep</themekey>
        <themekey>Swamp / Marsh</themekey>
        <themekey>Artificial Path</themekey>
        <themekey>Reach Code</themekey>
      </theme>
      <theme>
        <themekt>USGS Thesaurus</themekt>
        <themekey>geospatial analysis</themekey>
        <themekey>decision support methods</themekey>
        <themekey>environmental assessment</themekey>
        <themekey>LIDAR</themekey>
        <themekey>geospatial datasets</themekey>
        <themekey>digital elevation models</themekey>
        <themekey>hydrographic datasets</themekey>
        <themekey>geography</themekey>
        <themekey>ecological processes</themekey>
        <themekey>wetland functions</themekey>
        <themekey>coastal processes</themekey>
        <themekey>estuarine processes</themekey>
        <themekey>land use change</themekey>
        <themekey>geographic information systems</themekey>
        <themekey>water resources</themekey>
        <themekey>surface-water level</themekey>
        <themekey>biogeography</themekey>
        <themekey>coastal ecosystems</themekey>
        <themekey>freshwater ecosystems</themekey>
        <themekey>estuarine ecosystems</themekey>
        <themekey>wetland ecosystems</themekey>
        <themekey>habitats</themekey>
        <themekey>interagency programs</themekey>
      </theme>
      <theme>
        <themekt>None</themekt>
        <themekey>geodesign</themekey>
        <themekey>dikes</themekey>
        <themekey>drainage</themekey>
        <themekey>restoration</themekey>
        <themekey>connectivity</themekey>
      </theme>
      <theme>
        <themekt>USGS Metadata Identifier</themekt>
        <themekey>USGS:581164cce4b0f497e79a5544</themekey>
      </theme>
      <place>
        <placekt>Common geographic areas</placekt>
        <placekey>Great Lakes</placekey>
        <placekey>Lake St. Clair</placekey>
        <placekey>St. Clair River</placekey>
        <placekey>Detroit River</placekey>
      </place>
    </keywords>
    <accconst>None</accconst>
    <useconst>For informational use only.</useconst>
    <ptcontac>
      <cntinfo>
        <cntorgp>
          <cntorg>NewGAM Lab</cntorg>
          <cntper>Claudia Vila</cntper>
        </cntorgp>
        <cntpos>GIS Analyst</cntpos>
        <cntaddr>
          <addrtype>Mailing and Physical</addrtype>
          <address>5800 Bay Shore Rd</address>
          <city>Sarasota</city>
          <state>Florida</state>
          <postal>34243</postal>
          <country>United States</country>
        </cntaddr>
        <cntvoice>(941) 487 - 4707</cntvoice>
        <cntemail>newgam@ncf.edu</cntemail>
        <hours>0800-1600 Eastern Time</hours>
      </cntinfo>
    </ptcontac>
    <datacred>New College of Florida, USGS</datacred>
    <native>Environment as of Metadata Creation: Microsoft Windows 7 Version 6.1 (Build 7601) Service Pack 1; Esri ArcGIS 10.3 (Build 4322) Service Pack N/A (Build N/A)</native>
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  <dataqual>
    <attracc>
      <attraccr>This dataset was derived from USGS NHD data and the US Censyus Bureau's TIGER/Line roads data. Both of these data sets were derived from the USGS Digital Line Graphs. According the the USGS, the positional accuracy of the graphs is within 200 feet of their true position, making them 98.5 percent accurate.</attraccr>
    </attracc>
    <logic>Points, nodes, lines, and areas conform to topological rules.  Lines intersect only at nodes, and all nodes anchor the ends of lines.  Lines do not overshoot or undershoot other lines where they are supposed to meet.  There are no duplicate lines.  Lines bound areas and lines identify the areas to the left and right of the lines.  Gaps and overlaps among areas do not exist.  All areas close.</logic>
    <complete>The completeness of the data reflects the content of the sources, which most often are the published USGS topographic quadrangle and/or the USDA Forest Service Primary Base Series (PBS) map. The USGS topographic quadrangle is usually supplemented by Digital Orthophoto Quadrangles (DOQs). Features found on the ground may have been eliminated or generalized on the source map because of scale and legibility constraints. In general, streams longer than one mile (approximately 1.6 kilometers) were collected. Most streams that flow from a lake were collected regardless of their length. Only definite channels were collected so not all swamp/marsh features have stream/rivers delineated through them. Lake/ponds having an area greater than 6 acres were collected. Note, however, that these general rules were applied unevenly among maps during compilation. Reaches codes are defined on all features of type stream/river, canal/ditch, artificial path, coastline, and connector. Waterbody reach codes are defined on all lake/pond and most reservoir features. Names were applied from the GNIS database.  Detailed capture conditions are provided for every feature type in the Standards for National Hydrography Dataset available online through http://mapping.usgs.gov/standards/.
This statement is generally true for the most common sources of NHD data. Other sources and methods may have been used to create or update NHD data. In some cases, additional information may be found in the NHDMetadata table.</complete>
    <posacc>
      <horizpa>
        <horizpar>Statements of horizontal positional accuracy are based on accuracy statements made for U.S. Geological Survey topographic quadrangle maps.  These maps were compiled to meet National Map Accuracy Standards.  For horizontal accuracy, this standard is met if at least 90 percent of points tested are within 0.02 inch (at map scale) of the true position.  Additional offsets to positions may have been introduced where feature density is high to improve the legibility of map symbols.  In addition, the digitizing of maps is estimated to contain a horizontal positional error of less than or equal to 0.003 inch standard error (at map scale) in the two component directions relative to the source maps.  Visual comparison between the map graphic (including digital scans of the graphic) and plots or digital displays of points, lines, and areas, is used as control to assess the positional accuracy of digital data.  Digital map elements along the adjoining edges of data sets are aligned if they are within a 0.02 inch tolerance (at map scale).  Features with like dimensionality (for example, features that all are delineated with lines), with or without like characteristics, that are within the tolerance are aligned by moving the features equally to a common point. Features outside the tolerance are not moved; instead, a feature of type connector is added to join the features.
This statement is generally true for the most common sources of NHD data.  Other sources and methods may have been used to create or update NHD data.  In some cases, additional information may be found in the NHDMetadata table.</horizpar>
      </horizpa>
      <vertacc>
        <vertaccr>Statements of vertical positional accuracy for elevation of water surfaces are based on accuracy statements made for U.S. Geological Survey topographic quadrangle maps.  These maps were compiled to meet National Map Accuracy Standards.  For vertical accuracy, this standard is met if at least 90 percent of well-defined points tested are within one-half contour interval of the correct value.  Elevations of water surface printed on the published map meet this standard; the contour intervals of the maps vary.  These elevations were transcribed into the digital data; the accuracy of this transcription was checked by visual comparison between the data and the map.
This statement is generally true for the most common sources of NHD data.  Other sources and methods may have been used to create or update NHD data.  In some cases, additional information may be found in the NHDMetadata table.</vertaccr>
      </vertacc>
    </posacc>
    <lineage>
      <srcinfo>
        <srccite>
          <citeinfo>
            <origin>USGS</origin>
            <title>National Hydrography Dataset</title>
            <geoform>Vector Digital Data Set</geoform>
            <pubinfo>
              <pubplace>Reston, VA</pubplace>
              <publish>USGS</publish>
            </pubinfo>
            <onlink>nhd.usgs.gov</onlink>
          </citeinfo>
        </srccite>
        <typesrc>Digital and/or Hardcopy Resources</typesrc>
        <srctime>
          <timeinfo>
            <rngdates>
              <begdate>20020804</begdate>
              <enddate>20120908</enddate>
            </rngdates>
          </timeinfo>
          <srccurr>publication date</srccurr>
        </srctime>
        <srccitea>NHD</srccitea>
        <srccontr>Source information used in support of the development of the data set.</srccontr>
      </srcinfo>
      <srcinfo>
        <srccite>
          <citeinfo>
            <origin>US Census Bureau</origin>
            <pubdate>20150819</pubdate>
            <title>TIGER/Line Roads</title>
            <geoform>Vector Digital Data Set</geoform>
            <pubinfo>
              <publish>US Census Bureau</publish>
            </pubinfo>
            <onlink>https://www.census.gov/geo/maps-data/data/tiger-line.html</onlink>
          </citeinfo>
        </srccite>
        <typesrc>Digital and/or Hardcopy Resources</typesrc>
        <srctime>
          <srccurr>publication date</srccurr>
        </srctime>
        <srccitea>Roads</srccitea>
        <srccontr>Source information used in support of the development of the data set.</srccontr>
      </srcinfo>
      <procstep>
        <procdesc>Select flowlines draining into lake</procdesc>
        <procdate>201601</procdate>
      </procstep>
      <procstep>
        <procdesc>Merge selected flowlines</procdesc>
        <procdate>201601</procdate>
      </procstep>
      <procstep>
        <procdesc>Intersect with roads</procdesc>
        <procdate>201601</procdate>
      </procstep>
      <procstep>
        <procdesc>Select reaches</procdesc>
        <procdate>201601</procdate>
      </procstep>
      <procstep>
        <procdesc>Manual count of disconnections</procdesc>
        <procdate>201601</procdate>
      </procstep>
    </lineage>
  </dataqual>
  <spdoinfo>
    <direct>Vector</direct>
    <ptvctinf/>
  </spdoinfo>
  <spref>
    <horizsys>
      <planar>
        <planci>
          <plance>coordinate pair</plance>
          <coordrep>
            <absres>0.6096</absres>
            <ordres>0.6096</ordres>
          </coordrep>
          <plandu>Meter</plandu>
        </planci>
      </planar>
      <geodetic>
        <horizdn>D_North_American_1983</horizdn>
        <ellips>GRS_1980</ellips>
        <semiaxis>6378137.0</semiaxis>
        <denflat>298.257222101</denflat>
      </geodetic>
    </horizsys>
  </spref>
  <eainfo>
    <detailed>
      <enttyp>
        <enttypl>Attribute Table</enttypl>
        <enttypd>Table containing attribute information associated with the data set.</enttypd>
        <enttypds>Producer defined</enttypds>
      </enttyp>
      <attr>
        <attrlabl>FID</attrlabl>
        <attrdef>Internal feature number.</attrdef>
        <attrdefs>Esri</attrdefs>
        <attrdomv>
          <udom>Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.</udom>
        </attrdomv>
      </attr>
      <attr>
        <attrlabl>Shape</attrlabl>
        <attrdef>Feature geometry.</attrdef>
        <attrdefs>Esri</attrdefs>
        <attrdomv>
          <udom>Coordinates defining the features.</udom>
        </attrdomv>
      </attr>
      <attr>
        <attrlabl>DegDiscon</attrlabl>
      </attr>
    </detailed>
    <detailed>
      <attr>
        <attrlabl>DegDiscon</attrlabl>
        <attrdef>Number of disconnections downstream of reach</attrdef>
        <attrdefs>Producer defined</attrdefs>
        <attrdomv>
          <udom>Unknown</udom>
        </attrdomv>
      </attr>
    </detailed>
    <overview>
      <eaover>The National Hydrography Dataset is a comprehensive set of digital spatial data that encodes information about naturally occurring and constructed bodies of water, paths through which water flows, and related entities.  The information encoded about features includes a feature date, classification by type, other characteristics, a unique common identifier, the feature length or area, and (rarely) elevation of the surface of water pools and a description of the stage of the elevation.  For reaches, encoded information includes a reach code.  Names and their identifiers in the Geographic Names Information System, are assigned to most feature types.  The direction of flow is encoded for networked features.  The data also contains relations that encode metadata, and information that supports the exchange of future updates and improvements to the data.  The names and  definitions of all feature types, characteristics, and values are in the Standards for National Hydrography Dataset:  Reston, Virginia, U.S. Geological Survey, 1999.  The document is available online through http://mapping.usgs.gov/standards/.</eaover>
      <eadetcit>The names and definitions of all feature types, characteristics, and values are in U.S. Geological Survey, 1999, Standards for National Hydrography Dataset High Resolution:  Reston, Virginia, U.S. Geological Survey.  The document is available online through http://mapping.usgs.gov/standards/.  Information about tables and fields in the data are available from the user documentation for the National Hydrography Dataset at http://nhd.usgs.gov.  The National Map - Hydrography Fact Sheet is also available at: http://erg.usgs.gov/isb/pubs/factsheets/fs06002.html.</eadetcit>
    </overview>
  </eainfo>
  <distinfo>
    <distrib>
      <cntinfo>
        <cntorgp>
          <cntorg>NewGAM Lab</cntorg>
          <cntper>Claudia Vila</cntper>
        </cntorgp>
        <cntpos>GIS Analyst</cntpos>
        <cntaddr>
          <addrtype>Mailing and Physical</addrtype>
          <address>5800 Bay Shore Rd</address>
          <city>Sarasota</city>
          <state>Florida</state>
          <postal>34243</postal>
          <country>United States</country>
        </cntaddr>
        <cntvoice>(941) 487 - 4707</cntvoice>
        <cntemail>newgam@ncf.edu</cntemail>
      </cntinfo>
    </distrib>
    <resdesc>Downloadable Data</resdesc>
    <distliab>Unless otherwise stated, all data, metadata and related materials are considered to satisfy the quality standards relative to the purpose for which the data were collected. Although these data and associated metadata have been reviewed for accuracy and completeness and approved for release by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), no warranty expressed or implied is made regarding the display or utility of the data on any other system or for general or scientific purposes, nor shall the act of distribution constitute any such warranty.</distliab>
    <stdorder>
      <digform>
        <digtinfo>
          <formname>Vector Digital Data Set (Polyline)</formname>
          <formvern>8.3</formvern>
          <filedec>tar and uncompress</filedec>
        </digtinfo>
      </digform>
      <fees>None. No fees are applicable for obtaining the data set.</fees>
    </stdorder>
  </distinfo>
  <distinfo>
    <distrib>
      <cntinfo>
        <cntperp>
          <cntper>ScienceBase Team</cntper>
          <cntorg>U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase</cntorg>
        </cntperp>
        <cntaddr>
          <addrtype>mailing and physical</addrtype>
          <address>Denver Federal Center, Building 810, Mail Stop 302</address>
          <city>Denver</city>
          <state>CO</state>
          <postal>80225</postal>
          <country>United States</country>
        </cntaddr>
        <cntvoice>1-888-275-8747</cntvoice>
        <cntemail>sciencebase@usgs.gov</cntemail>
      </cntinfo>
    </distrib>
    <distliab>Unless otherwise stated, all data, metadata and related materials are considered to satisfy the quality standards relative to the purpose for which the data were collected. Although these data and associated metadata have been reviewed for accuracy and completeness and approved for release by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), no warranty expressed or implied is made regarding the display or utility of the data on any other system or for general or scientific purposes, nor shall the act of distribution constitute any such warranty.</distliab>
  </distinfo>
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    <metd>20250314</metd>
    <metc>
      <cntinfo>
        <cntorgp>
          <cntorg>NewGAM</cntorg>
          <cntper>Claudia Vila</cntper>
        </cntorgp>
        <cntaddr>
          <addrtype>Mailing and Physical</addrtype>
          <address>5800 Bay Shore Rd</address>
          <city>Sarasota</city>
          <state>Florida</state>
          <postal>34243</postal>
          <country>United States</country>
        </cntaddr>
        <cntvoice>(941) 487 - 4707</cntvoice>
        <cntemail>newgam@ncf.edu</cntemail>
        <cntinst>In addition to the address above there are other ESIC offices throughout the country. A full list of these offices is at URL:  http://mapping.usgs.gov/esic/esic_index.html</cntinst>
      </cntinfo>
    </metc>
    <metstdn>FGDC Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata</metstdn>
    <metstdv>FGDC-STD-001-1998</metstdv>
    <mettc>local time</mettc>
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