NRIs in Municipal Planning Creating the NRI Information Workshop Next Steps

Creating and Using the Municipal Natural Resources Inventory

SWRPC NHACC CCCD NH DES

A G E N D A NRIs in Municipal Planning Creating the NRI Information Workshop Next Steps

Information Workshop

SWRPC GIS Data Base

Regionally Significant Resources

Sample NRI Work Plan

Sample Work Plan Checklist

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Active Agriculture

Bedrock Fractures

Building Locations/ Footprints

Census Data

Community Facilities

Conservation Land Inventory

Floodplains

Fourth Order Streams

GRANIT 20-Foot Contours

Gravel Sites

Groundwater Threats Inventory

Historic and Cultural Features

Junkyards

Land-Use

Large Parcel Inventory

Municipal Boundaries

Natural Heritage Inventory

National Wetlands Inventory

Non-point Source Pollution Inventory

NPDES Outfalls

Pesticides

Public Water Supply Wells

SWRPC GIS Data Base

Base Map

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Bedrock Geology of New Hampshire Hungagunga, Hungagunga, Hungagunga & McCormick

Note: Some of all of the information represented here may be wrong.

Colors indicate RockLEGEND:

Surface Water & WetlandsSurface Water & Wetlands Water Resources

Stratified Drift Aquifers

Productive Agricultural and Forestry Soils

Unfragmented Lands

Sensitive Habitats

Regionally Significant Resources Water Resources

Productive Agricultural and Forestry Soils

Unfragmented Lands

Sensitive Habitats

Stratified Drift Aquifers Surface Water & Wetlands

Surface Water

USGS DLG

SOURCE

USGS Topographic Maps

Groundwater

Stratifed Drift Aquifers

SOURCE

USGS Surficial Geology Study

Replaced the “Cotton Maps”

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Movement of Water

Watershed Boundaries Connecticut Merrimack

Watershed Boundaries

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Watershed Boundaries in SWRPC GIS Delineated by NH DES Groundwater in Bedrock Fractures Groundwater in Bedrock Fractures

USGS

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Surface Water & WetlandsSurface Water & Wetlands Water Resources

Stratified Drift Aquifers

Productive Agricultural and Forestry Soils

Unfragmented Lands

Sensitive Habitats

Regionally Significant Resources Water Resources

Productive Agricultural and Forestry Soils

Unfragmented Lands

Sensitive Habitats

Stratified Drift Aquifers Surface Water & Wetlands

Resource Extraction Potential

Agriculture Timber Harvest Sand & Gravel Water Supply

Prime Farmland Soils

Soils with High Timber Production PotentialSoils with High Timber Production Potential and Insignificant Limitations to Managementand Insignificant Limitations to Management

Soils with High Potential for Sand & Gravel

Mining

Geologic Formations with High Potential for Water Supply

Existing Water Supplies Surface Water & WetlandsSurface Water & Wetlands

Water Resources

Stratified Drift Aquifers

Productive Agricultural and Forestry Soils

Unfragmented Lands

Sensitive Habitats

Regionally Significant Resources Water Resources

Productive Agricultural and Forestry Soils

Unfragmented Lands

Sensitive Habitats

Stratified Drift Aquifers Surface Water & Wetlands

Sensitive Resource Areas

Isolated Smaal Patches Ephemeral Component (seasonal or episodic) Aquatic/Terrestrial Interface

Fragile Communities

Special Plant and Animal Communities/Habitats or otherwise host

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USGS DLG Surface Water USGS Wetlands

US Fish & Wildlife Service National Wetlands Inventory

US Fish & Wildlife Service National Wetlands Inventory

From aerial photo interpretation

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Floodplain

Floodplain

SOURCE Federal Emergency Management Agency USGS Topographic and Hydrologic Data

USDA Hydric Soils USDA Hydric Soils

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Stratified Drift Aquifers

Stratified Drift Aquifers

Steep Slopes and Outcrop

USDA Soils

Steep Slopes and Outcrop

USDA Soils

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Surface Water & WetlandsSurface Water & Wetlands Water Resources

Stratified Drift Aquifers

Productive Agricultural and Forestry Soils

Unfragmented Lands

Sensitive Habitats

Regionally Significant Resources Water Resources

Productive Agricultural and Forestry Soils

Unfragmented Lands

Sensitive Habitats

Stratified Drift Aquifers Surface Water & Wetlands

Habitat Fragmentation

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SWRPC GIS Data Base

Regionally Significant Resources

Sample NRI Work Plan

Sample Work Plan Checklist

SWRPC GIS Data Base

Regionally Significant Resources

Sample NRI Work Plan

Sample Work Plan Checklist

NRIs in Municipal Planning Creating the NRI Information Workshop Next Steps Next Steps

Regionally Significant Resources Water Resources

Productive Agricultural and Forestry Soils

Unfragmented Lands

Sensitive Habitats

Stratified Drift Aquifers Surface Water & Wetlands

Information Workshop

SWRPC GIS Data Base

Regionally Significant Resources

Sample NRI Work Plan

Sample Work Plan Checklist

Information Workshop

SWRPC GIS Data Base

Regionally Significant Resources

Sample NRI Work Plan

Sample Work Plan Checklist

Creating and Using the Municipal Natural Resources Inventory

SWRPC NHACC CCCD NH DES

A G E N D A NRIs in Municipal Planning Creating the NRI Information Workshop Next Steps

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