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NHD Data Availability
- The National Hydrography
Dataset is now available in a new database design that allows better
web-based access and query, as well as truly seamless data that can be
downloaded in various extents. The new database design provides a
distribution format called NHDinGEO. Data requests in NHDinGEO can be
extracted by subbasin, county, congressional district
or by topographic map quad. Data can be extracted in blocks encompassing
several adjacent reference areas. Data are also available in a modified
form of the traditional NHDinARC model called NHDGEOinARC. Data requests
in NHDGEOinARC are only available by individual subbasins. An upgrade to
the NHD ArcView 3.x Toolkit that is compatible with the NHDGEOinARC
format is expected to be released sometime in early fall, 2004.
- Data are built on a
per-request basis. Requests for NHDinGEO data will process the quickest
while NHDGEOinARC requests may take several hours or even days. Once a
data request is completed, you will be notified of the data availability
and ftp location via e-mail. The data will remain available for 7 days.
- To check the status of
NHDinGEO data please see the NHD Status layer on the NHD viewer. You can also visit EPA's Surf Your
Watershed web site if you need to locate the subbasin of interest to
you, or don't know the subbasin number.
If you want to read more about the new NHDinGEO format, the NHDinARC to
NHDinGEO transition, or the NHDGEOinARC format, please see the NHD Geodatabase page.
Please direct all comments and
questions about the National Hydrography Dataset, and accompanying
documentation, to nhd@usgs.gov.
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