Description: To improve permit compliance and appropriate preservation of wetlands, DEQ requires a comprehensive spatial record of wetland permits and identification of wetland losses and gains over time to support Virginia's statutory goal of no net loss of wetland acreage and function. This dataset is intended to begin the process of recording wetland preservations in a spatial database to identify those locations during future permitting.
The "Preservation_Points" dataset represents a notional indicator of the location of a wetland preservation. These records indicate that the general location of the preservation could be located but the preservation itself could not be delineated using standard photo-interpretive techniques (i.e., the preservation was too small).
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Copyright Text: Conservation Management Institute at Virginia Tech
Description: The "Preservation_Polygons" dataset represents a wetland preservation located using standard photo-interpretive techniques.
The "Property_Polygons" dataset represents a notional indicator of the location of a wetland preservation and generally indicate the entire property. These records indicate that the exact location of the preservation could not be located using standard photo-interpretive techniques.
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Copyright Text: Conservation Management Institute at Virginia Tech