HR: 0830h
AN: B41B-0877    [PDF]
TI: High Resolution Mapping of the Impermeable Surfaces of Barnstable County, Cape Cod and their Relationship to Water Quality
AU: * Stone, T
EM: tstaone@whrc.org
AF: Woods Hole Research Center, po box 296, Woods Hole, MA 02543 United States
AU: Fiske, G
EM: gfiske@whrc.org
AF: Woods Hole Research Center, po box 296, Woods Hole, MA 02543 United States
AU: Schlesinger, P
EM: pschles@whrc.org
AF: Woods Hole Research Center, po box 296, Woods Hole, MA 02543 United States
AB: We have developed several impermeable surface maps for all Cape Cod (Barnstable County) to help assess the contribution of paved and other impermeable surfaces to declines in local and regional water quality. These maps have been assembled with the cooperation of many town planning departments, the Cape Cod National Seashore, Mass Military Reservation, the Cape Cod Commission, the Association to Preserve Cape Cod (APCC) and from IKONOS data. The map are being used to predict where new impermeable surface will occur, define current and future hotspots of non-point pollution, and to map the relationships of impermeable surfaces to the zones of contribution (ZOC) of municipal wells. The maps are also used to define the percentage of impermeable surfaces in buffer zones around ponds and estuaries. Combining these data with census data on housing and population density allows us to define the importance of impervious surface as minor or major factors in water pollution.
DE: 1803 Anthropogenic effects
DE: 1815 Erosion and sedimentation
DE: 1860 Runoff and streamflow
DE: 1871 Surface water quality
SC: Biogeosciences [B]
MN: 2003 Fall Meeting