Digital Geodata Series
DGS00-1 Drought Regions in New Jersey
   dgs00-1.zip (1698 KB)
DGS00-1 is a ArcView 3.x Geographic Information System shapefile that delineates
New Jersey drought regions, counties, and municipalities. Drought regions
provide a regulatory basis for coordinating local responses to regional
water-supply shortages. The six drought regions are based on watershed and
water-supply considerations. Drought region boundaries coincide with municipal
boundaries as referenced by the N.J. Dept of Environmental Protection
(NJDEP). Each municipality in New Jersey is assigned to a drought region
based on the watershed covering and supplying water to the municipality.
Each data record of the file includes name and numeric code entries for counties
and municipalities, and names of drought regions. This is the second version
of the drought regions. It differs from the original delineation in two ways:
1) The number of drought regions were expanded from five to six in order
to account for water-supply issues identified for the New Jersey coastal
plain.
The original version included the north part of the Coastal Plain in
the central region. Version 2 separates a north coastal region, consisting
of Monmouth and northern Ocean Counties, from the coastal region to the south
. 2) Municipalities in Mercer County receiving water from the Trenton Water
Dept. were moved into the southwest region from the northwest. Pennington
and Hopewell boroughs were also moved to the southwest region.
This is the third version of the drought regions and was released in May
2004. There are two changes from the second version. Roosevelt Boro in Monmouth
County was moved to the southwest drought region (from the coastal north)
and Berlin Twp in Camden County was moved to the coastal south drought region
(from the southwest). Both changes were made in recognition of the location
of actual water supply to these municipalities.
ArcView Display of New Jersey Drought Regions
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