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St. Marys AOC Boundary, U.S. EPA Great Lakes National

Program Office

Shapefile

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Available

Tags

Michigan, Environment, Remediation, Great Lakes, Area of Concern, 020:057

Summary

The main use of the delineated AOC boundaries is for EPA and State governments to locate those
sites listed on the U.S. Area of Concerns list in the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, or other
sites that are in close proximity or may have contributed to the pollution within each AOC. These
analyses are completed on a relatively small scale of the areas in and around each AOC. Attributes
only include the AOC name and the predominant state in which the AOC is located. The locations of
features and boundaries shown on this map are approximate and are intended for planning and
visualization purposes only. This is not intended for survey, statistical, engineering, or legal
purposes.

Description

This shapefile provides a polygon boundary for the St. Marys River AOC in Michigan. In general, the
following steps were taken in developing the shapefile:

1.	The previous AOC shapefile was obtained from EPA.

2.	Shoreline data from NOAA, called Continually Updated Shoreline Product (CUSP), was
downloaded for the full extent of the AOC.

3.	A narrative of the AOC was obtained taken from the AOC webpage (see narrative below).

4.	The AOC shoreline (river and lake as applicable) of the previous shapefile was updated using the
data from Step #2.

5.	The extent of the AOC was determined from the narrative in Step #3 and/or the extent from the
previous boundary and applied. Further discussion with the State and Canadian agencies
determined that the southeastern boundary on the Canadian side of the AOC should terminate at
Hay Point on St. Joseph Island.

6.	Utilizing aerial imagery (current and historic) and best professional judgement, manual edits to
the shoreline were made if significant deviations were apparent due to man-made changes or
possible errors.

Narrative: EPA's AOC Webpage, 3/7/2022. "The AOC includes the area of the river that extends
from Whitefish Bay between Point Iroquois, Mich., and Gros Cap, Ontario, downstream to Quebec
Bay, Ontario - Humbug Point, Ontario, in the St. Joseph Channel, and De Tour Passage, Michigan
and Ontario."

Representatives of EPA, EGLE, Environment and Climate Change Canada, and MECP Ontario
reviewed and approved the boundary.

Credits

Sources of digital information used in the development of the AOC include: NOAA
(https://www.ngs.noaa.gov/CUSP/), IBC U.S./Canada boundary vl.3

(https://www.internationalboundarycommission.org/en/maps-coordinates/coordinates.php), ESRI
World Imagery (http://goto.arcgisonline.com/maps/World_Imagery), and Google Earth historic

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imagery (https://www.google.com/earth/).

St. Marys AOC Webpage: https://www.epa.gov/great-lakes-aocs/st-marys-river-aoc
Use limitations

Any hardcopies utilizing EPA data sets shall clearly indicate their source. The licensee specifically
agrees not to misrepresent EPA data sets, nor to imply that changes they made were approved by
EPA.

Extent

West -84.633551 East -83.866033
North 46.549994 South 45.982257

Scale Range

Maximum (zoomed in) 1:5,000
Minimum (zoomed out) 1:50,000

ArcGIS Metadata ~

Topics and Keywords ~

themes or categories of the resource inlandWaters, boundaries

* Content type Downloadable Data

EXPORT TO FGDC CSDGM XML FORMAT AS RESOURCE DESCRIPTION No

place keywords Michigan

Thesaurus's language English (UNITED STATES)

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title EPA Place Names

Publication date 2015-01-31 00:00:00

RESOURCE LOCATION ONLINE
LOCATION

https://ofmpub.epa.gov/sor_internet/registry/termreg/searchandretrieve/taxonomies/search.do?
search=&searchString=&taxonomyName=WBT%20-%20Geographic%20Locations
name Web Taxonomy - Geographic Locations
function performed information

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theme keywords Environment, Remediation

THESAURUS ~

title EPA GIS Keyword Thesaurus
Publication date 2007-11-02 00:00:00

RESOURCE LOCATION ONLINE

location https://www.epa.gov/geospatial/epa-metadata-technical-specification
name EPA Metadata Technical Specification
function performed information

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theme keywords Great Lakes, Area of Concern

THESAURUS ~

title User

Publication date 2020-06-29 00:00:00

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THEME KEYWORDS 020:057
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title Federal Program Inventory
Publication date 2013-09-16 00:00:00

RESOURCE LOCATION ONLINE

location https://www.performance.gov/federalprograminventory
Name Federal Program Inventory
function performed information

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Citation ~

title St. Marys AOC Boundary, U.S. EPA Great Lakes National Program Office
PUBLICATION DATE 2022-02-28

presentation formats digital map
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Dataset languages English (UNITED STATES)

Dataset character set utf8 - 8 bit UCS Transfer Format

Spatial representation type vector

* Processing environment Version 6.2 (Build 9200) ; Esri ArcGIS 10.7.0.10450
Credits

Sources of digital information used in the development of the AOC include: NOAA
(https://www.ngs.noaa.gov/CUSP/), IBC U.S./Canada boundary vl.3

(https://www.internationalboundarycommission.org/en/maps-coordinates/coordinates.php), ESRI
World Imagery (http://goto.arcgisonline.com/maps/World_Imagery), and Google Earth historic
imagery (https://www.google.com/earth/).

St. Marys AOC Webpage: https://www.epa.gov/great-lakes-aocs/st-marys-river-aoc

ARCGIS ITEM PROPERTIES

*	Name AOC_MI_StMarys_2022

*	Size 1.629

*	Location file://\\F5160-78SW8C3-L\C$\Users\justin.telech\OneDrive -

GDIT\Documents\Legacy\aoc boundary work\St Marys\Edits\Finalized\AOC_MI_StMarys_2022.shp
* Access protocol Local Area Network

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Extents ~

EXTENT

DESCRIPTION

The St. Marys River AOC was designated an AOC in 1987.

TEMPORAL EXTENT

BEGINNING DATE 1987-01-01 00:00:00
ENDING DATE

INDETERMINATE DATE Unknown

EXTENT

Geographic extent

BOUNDING RECTANGLE

extent type Extent used for searching

*	WEST LONGITUDE -84.633551

*	EAST LONGITUDE -83.866033

*	NORTH LATITUDE 46.549994

*	South latitude 45.982257

*	EXTENT CONTAINS THE RESOURCE YeS

EXTENT IN THE ITEM'S COORDINATE SYSTEM

*	WEST LONGITUDE -84.633551

*	EAST LONGITUDE -83.866033

*	South latitude 45.982257

*	NORTH LATITUDE 46.549994

*	EXTENT CONTAINS THE RESOURCE YeS

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Resource Points of Contact ~

POINT OF CONTACT

Individual's name Mark Loomis

Organization's name U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Great Lakes National Program Office
Contact's position Federal AOC Taskforce Lead
Contact's role publisher

Contact information ~

ADDRESS

Delivery point 77 W. Jackson Blvd G-17J
City Chicago

ADMINISTRATIVE AREA IL
POSTAL CODE 60604
Country US

e-mail address Loomis.Mark@Epa.gov

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RESOURCE MAINTENANCE

update frequency as needed
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Constraints

LIMITATIONS OF USE

Any hardcopies utilizing EPA data sets shall clearly indicate their source. The licensee
specifically agrees not to misrepresent EPA data sets, nor to imply that changes they made
were approved by EPA.

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ARCGIS COORDINATE SYSTEM

*	Type Geographic

*	Geographic coordinate reference GCS_North_American_1983

*	Coordinate reference details
Geographic coordinate system

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X ORIGIN -400
Y ORIGIN -400

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Z ORIGIN -100000
Z SCALE 10000
M ORIGIN -100000
M SCALE 10000

XY tolerance 8.9831528411952133e-09

Z TOLERANCE 0.001

M TOLERANCE 0.001

high precision true

LEFT LONGITUDE -180

LATEST WELL-KNOWN IDENTIFIER 4269

well-known text GEOGCS["GCS_North_American_1983",DATUM

["D_North_American_1983",SPHEROID["GRS_1980", 6378137.0,298.257222101]], PRIMEM
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REFERENCE SYSTEM IDENTIFIER

dimension horizontal
VALUE 4269

*	CODESPACE EPSG

*	Version 6.12(3.0.1)

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* level of topology for this dataset geometry only

Geometric objects

Feature class name AOC_MI_StMarys_2022

*	Object type composite

*	Object count 1

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Feature class name AOC_MI_StMarys_2022

*	FEATURE TYPE Simple

*	Geometry type Polygon

*	HAS TOPOLOGY FALSE

*	FEATURE COUNT 1

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*	SPATIAL INDEX TRUE

*	LINEAR REFERENCING FALSE

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Data Quality ~

Scope of quality information ~
resource level dataset

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Lineage ~

LINEAGE statement

This shapefile supersedes the previous version, AOC_MI_StMarys.shp

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Distribution ~

DISTRIBUTION FORMAT

*	name Shapefile
Version 2022

TRANSFER OPTIONS

TRANSFER SIZE 0.012

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*	Type Feature Class

*	Row count 1

DEFINITION

The AOC extent and other possible applicable areas

DEFINITION SOURCE

U.S. EPA Great Lakes National Program Office

FIELD FID ~

*	ALIAS FID

*	DATA TYPE OID

*	WIDTH 4

*	PRECISION 0

*	Scale 0

*	FIELD DESCRIPTION

Internal feature number.

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* DESCRIPTION OF VALUES

Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.

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*	alias Shape

*	data type Geometry

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*	Scale 0

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*	DESCRIPTION OF VALUES

Coordinates defining the features.

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*	alias Name

*	data type String

*	WIDTH 50

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FIELD DESCRIPTION

Feature name

DESCRIPTION SOURCE

U.S. EPA Great Lakes National Program Office

LIST OF VALUES

Value AOC Name

description The AOC name is the official name given by the U.S. EPA Great Lakes National
Program Office

enumerated domain value definition source U.S. EPA Great Lakes National Program Office

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field State ~

*	alias State

*	data type String

*	WIDTH 2

*	PRECISION 0

*	Scale 0

FIELD DESCRIPTION

Location of feature as 2-character state code

DESCRIPTION SOURCE

U.S. EPA Great Lakes National Program Office

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LIST OF VALUES

value 2-character state code
description State postal code

enumerated domain value definition source U.S. EPA Great Lakes National Program Office

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Metadata Details ~

Metadata language English (UNITED STATES)

Metadata character set utf8 - 8 bit UCS Transfer Format

METADATA IDENTIFIER E684F785-3782-4FA4-A450-74A262230F6D

Scope of the data described by the metadata dataset
Scope name * dataset

Last update 2022-03-08

ARCGIS METADATA PROPERTIES

M ETADATA FORMAT ArcG IS 1.0

Metadata style EPA Metadata Specification NAP IS019115 2003
Standard or profile used to edit metadata NAP

Created in ArcGIS for the item 2022-03-07 18:52:20
Last modified in ArcGIS for the item 2022-03-08 16:33:31

AUTOMATIC UPDATES

HAVE BEEN PERFORMED YeS

Last update 2022-03-08 16:30:52

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Metadata Contacts ~

METADATA CONTACT

individual's name Justin Telech
Organization's name GDIT
Contact's position Environmental Scientist
Contact's role author

Contact information ~

ADDRESS

Delivery point 79 TW Alexander Drive
City Research Triangle Park
ADMINISTRATIVE AREA NC
POSTAL CODE 27709
Country US

e-mail address justin.telech@gdit.com

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MAINTENANCE

update frequency as needed
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