Upper Delaware Scenic & Recreational River Corridor Segments Data
Upper Delaware Scenic & Recreational River Corridor Segments Data. Published by Jennifer Z. Claster/Produced by Shannon L. Thol for the Upper Delaware Scenic & Recreational River
These ESRI shapefiles are a digital representation of the scenic and recreational designations of the Upper Delaware Scenic & Recreational River's administrative boundary. These digital data were derived from the official version of the boundary and designations as represented in hard-copy form in the 1986 Upper Delaware Scenic & Recreational River Management Plan, as approved in the 1987 Record of Decision. The plan boundary, which was established to meet the resource protection requirements set forth in the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act and in the Special Statutory Provisions for the Upper Delaware, was delineated so as to encompass "lands from which runoff drains directly into the river and tributary drainages upstream to the first prominent topographic feature" (River Management Plan, 1986). The authoritative area of the boundary as given in the 1986 River Management Plan is 55,574.5 acres. At present, the National Park Service owns approximately 31 acres within the boundary, and the remaining land is mostly privately owned, with some state and local government holdings. Public Law 90-542 (October 2, 1968) defines "scenic" and "recreational" areas as follows: Scenic river areas -- Those rivers or sections of rivers that are free of impoundments, with shorelines or watersheds still largely primitive and shorelines largely undeveloped, but accessible in places by roads. Recreational river areas -- Those rivers or sections of rivers that are readily accessible by road or railroad, that may have some development along their shorelines, and that may have undergone some impoundment or diversion in the past. The scenic and recreational segments of the Upper Delaware corridor were originally published in map form together with Section 704 (b) of Public Law 95-625 (the National Parks and Recreation Act of 1978), as amended Public Law 96 – 87, Title IV, section 401 (p)(2), October 12, 1979, 93 Stat. 666 (the Special Statutory Provisions for the Upper Delaware). The boundary and scenic and recreational designations were digitized in 2015 based on the eight pages of maps from the River Management Plan georeferenced to 7.5 minute quadrangle topo maps from the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
- Type
- Geospatial Dataset
- Publisher
- Published by Jennifer Z. Claster/Produced by Shannon L. Thol for the Upper Delaware Scenic & Recreational River
- Units
- UPDE
- Keywords
- Boundaries, Boundary, National Park Service, NERO, New York, Pennsylvania, Planning, Recreational, River Corridor, Scenic, Segments, United States, UPDE, Upper Delaware, Upper Delaware Scenic & Recreational River, Wild & Scenic