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USACE NLD2 Leveed Regions


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Created: Jan 08, 2024 at 5:17 p.m.
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Abstract

Though levees are a widely used flood mitigation infrastructure in the United States, levees displace inundation, shifting flood risk to nearby areas with substantial environmental and social justice implications. To support research on whole-channel hydraulic and morphologic shifts associated with levee construction, this dataset defines the upstream, downstream, cross-stream, and leveed hydraulic reach of 60 levees constructed between 1995 and 2005 in the USACE National Levee Database 2 ("NLD2", https://ags03.sec.usace.army.mil/server/rest/services/NLD2_PUBLIC/FeatureServer)

Each shapefile is named using the "Levee ID" in the NLD2. Each shapefile contains 4-8 polygons corresponding with different hydraulic reaches (upstream, downstream, adjacent, protected/leveed), with multiple hydraulic reaches of the same class indicating a multi-channel levee. The attribute "Polygon" in each shapefile contains a letter indicating the class of hydraulic reach.
1.P--Protected: the land surface area between the channel center and extended floodplain. The levee was constructed to reduce flood risk in this area.
2. A--Adjacent: the land surface area on the same side of the levee as the affected water body, or across the channel from the water body.
3. S--Setback: a design feature used to reduce along-channel flooding. The land surface area between the levee and channel; the NLD will detail whether or not a setback has been included in design.
4/5. U/D-- Upstream/Downstream: this is the land surface area within the affected channel floodplain and within the upstream and downstream hydraulic reach of the structure where there may be hydraulic impacts (alterations in the discharge/inundation relationship) with levee construction.

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Spatial

Coordinate System/Geographic Projection:
WGS 84 EPSG:4326
Coordinate Units:
Decimal degrees
North Latitude
36.5976°
East Longitude
-79.3669°
South Latitude
36.5312°
West Longitude
-79.5239°

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The following web services are available for data contained in this resource. Geospatial Feature and Raster data are made available via Open Geospatial Consortium Web Services. The provided links can be copied and pasted into GIS software to access these data. Multidimensional NetCDF data are made available via a THREDDS Data Server using remote data access protocols such as OPeNDAP. Other data services may be made available in the future to support additional data types.

How to Cite

Carter, E., R. Kiey, D. Leyva, M. Osman, I. Unobagha (2024). USACE NLD2 Leveed Regions, HydroShare, http://www.hydroshare.org/resource/b09e3d4d1e8c4ef584394a2e9ac26b4c

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