Description: Streams that are protected by the NYSDEC https://www.dec.ny.gov/permits/6042.html<div><em>ARTICLE 15,<br />ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION LAW<br />IMPLEMENTING REGULATIONS<br />6NYCRR PART 608</em></div><div><em><br /></em></div>
Copyright Text: The poly line data is from the Tompkins County Hydrology data. The attributes for protected stream class are from the NYSDEC
Description: There is just one mapped aquifer recharge area in Tompkins County. This is where the streams and surface water feeds the aquifer below. It is important because it is susceptible to pollution and needs to be protected from development.
Description: <div>In response to increasing losses from flood hazards nationwide, the Congress of the United States</div><div>passed the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 which established the National Flood Insurance</div><div>Program (NFIP). The 1968 Act provided for the availability of flood insurance within</div><div>communities that were willing to adopt floodplain management programs to mitigate future flood</div><div>losses. The act also required the identification of all floodplain areas within the United States</div><div>and the establishment of flood-risk zones within those areas. As a result of the 1972 Hurricane</div><div>Agnes flooding along the East coast, the 1968 Act was expanded by the Flood Disaster Protection</div><div>Act of 1973. The 1973 Act added the mandatory purchase requirement and increased the</div><div>awareness of floodplain mapping needs throughout the country. The responsibility for</div><div>administration of the NFIP falls with the Federal Insurance Administration of the Federal</div><div>Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).</div>
Copyright Text: Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
Description: <div>Wetlands interpreted from 1980 aerial imagery. It was digitized in the early 1990s. There is geographic descrepancy from these data due to distortion of the air photos. <br /></div>
Description: Hydrology data was compiled using DEM for Tompkins County in 2001.<div><br /></div><div><div>Data originating from the Tompkins County 1991-92 Planimetric project at a scale of 1:4800 was organized into watersheds and edited to complete the connectivity of stream segments and networks. Identified gaps between arcs due to the original data capture errors were corrected with the use of secondary data sources. In locations where stream paths did not exist through water bodies and wetlands, additional segments, or artificial paths were added through these polygons. Approximate stream centerlines were also delineated in locations where larger streams were identified only by two arcs representing stream edges. In addition, all centerline segment directional orientation was altered to a downstream direction.<br /></div><div><span style> </span></div></div>
Description: <span style="font-family:"Avenir Next W01", "Avenir Next W00", "Avenir Next", Avenir, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size:16px;">This layer is contains polygon buffers 50' from the centerline of the hydrology data for intermittent streams.</span>
Name: Tompkins County Water Resources Council Wetlands Inventory 2012
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Type: Feature Layer
Geometry Type: esriGeometryPolygon
Description: <div>Wetlands were mapped by visual interpretation of high-resolution aerial imagery available at no cost from the New York State Digital Orthoimagery Program (NYSDOP) and topographic analysis of high resolution LiDAR elevation data collected in 2008 by Pictometry (Rochester, NY) with funding from the Tompkins County Soil and Water Conservation District. All wetlands in the study area were delineated, with no minimum wetland size set, and described using the USFWS Cowardin classification for Wetlands and Deepwater Habitats (Cowardin, Carter, Golet, & LaRoe, 1979). Geospatial data processing and analysis were completed using Manifold 8.0 GIS System (Manifold Software Limited Wanchai, Hong Kong) and ArcGIS 10.1 (ESRI, Redlands, CA) as noted. 2007 NYSDOP aerial imagery which served as a primary data resource.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>
Copyright Text: Nick Hollingshead,
Tompkins County Water Resources Council,
Tompkins County Dept of Planning and Sustainability.
The project was supported by the Cayuga Lake Watershed Network with funding from the Tompkins County Soil and Water Conservation District (TCSWCD) via the Finger Lakes Lake Ontario Watershed Protection Alliance (FL-LOWPA)
Description: <div>Tompkins County identified six particular agricultural areas that are
recognized as being strategic for protection for land
intensive agricultural uses in the 2010 Conservation Plan.<br /></div>
Copyright Text: Tompkins County Department of Planning and Sustainability
Description: <div>Natural Features Focuse Areas were identified in the Tompkins County Comprehensive plan. They are based on the location</div><div>and concentration of significant resources, such as public parks and forests, wetlands, stream corridors, public drinking water resources, Important Bird Areas, greenways, and hiking and multi-use trail corridors, and also include Unique Natural Areas and help to identify connectivity between forests and natural habitats. </div>
Description: <p style="font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-stretch:normal; font-size:15.2px; font-family:Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0.75em; color:rgb(0, 0, 0);">Critical Environmental Areas (CEAs) are areas in the state which have been designated by a local or state agency to recognize a specific geographical area with one or more of the following characteristics:</p><div style="margin:0px 0px 0.5em 0.5em; text-align:right; font-style:italic; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-stretch:normal; font-size:12.92px; font-family:Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; color:rgb(0, 0, 0);"><img alt="Wooded Wetland Near Storm King" height="156" src="https://www.dec.ny.gov/images/permits_ej_operations_images/01590a.jpg" style="border:1px solid black; margin:0px; display:block;" width="275" /></div><ul><li>A feature that is a benefit or threat to human health;</li><li>An exceptional or unique natural setting;</li><li>An exceptional or unique social, historic, archaeological, recreational, or educational value; or</li><li>An inherent ecological, geological, or hydrological sensitivity to change that maybe adversely affected by any physical disturbance.</li></ul>
Copyright Text: NYS Department of Environmental Conservation
Description: <p style="margin-top:3px; margin-bottom:10px; font-family:"Proxima Nova", Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000" size="3" style>The NY State legislature enacted <a href="https://agriculture.ny.gov/agml-article-25-aa-agricultural-districts-law" style="text-decoration-line:none;">Article 25-AA of the Agriculture & Markets Law</a> in 1971 to protect and promote the availability of land for farming purposes. Subsequent amendments have broadened its scope and protections for farmers.</font></span></p><p style="margin-top:3px; margin-bottom:10px; font-family:"Proxima Nova", Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000" size="3">Counties manage the preliminary stages of creation or modification of an Agricultural District. After the County submits a resolution approving or modifying a district, the Commissioner of Agriculture and Markets certifies that a district meets the purpose and intent of the Agricultural District Law.</font></span></p><p style="margin-top:3px; margin-bottom:10px; font-family:"Proxima Nova", Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000" size="3" style>Ag Districts are updated every 8 years.</font></span></p>
Copyright Text: New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets.
Description: In an effort to protect, connect and conserve natural areas and habitats, Tompkins County Department of Planning and Sustainability has assembled an inventory of parks, forests and municipal open space. Cornell Natural Areas and private conservations easements are not shown in the online maps to protect ownership but are included in the in-house version of this inventory.
Copyright Text: Tompkins County Department of Planning and Sustainability
Description: Land Use and Land Cover Inventory with 11 general classes and over 60 detailed land use classes. This is based on the Land Use and Natural Resources Inventory that was completed for the entire state of New York in 1969 by the Cornell Laboratory for Environmental Applications of Remote Sensing. The original 1969 data was digitized and a complete new inventory was compiled with the 1995 imagery, updated with the 2007 imagery, updated again with the 2012 and then 2015 imagery and is due for another update when new imagery becomes available. We can study changes over time with these updates.
Copyright Text: Tompkins County Department of Planning and Sustainability.