METADATA FOR WRDAMS SHAPEFILE

Revised: July 21, 2004

This is a point shapefile of dam locations in the State of Utah from the Dam Safety Regulatory Database at the Utah Division of Water Rights. The shapefile is generated daily from basic information in the tabular database.

The shapefile coordinate system is UTM zone 12. Many of the origional positions were scaled as latitude/longitude values from 1:24000 USGS Quadrangle series maps. They were later converted to UTM locations. Locations for recent additions to the database are either scaled from USGS Quadrangle maps, collected from GPS observations or converted from Public Land Survey descriptions to UTM coordinates.

Non-standard point attribute items:

ALIAS	TYPE	WIDTH	DECIMAL	CONTENT
Shape	FIELD_SHAPEPOINT	6	0	Point Shapefile
DAM_NUMBER	FIELD_CHAR	8	0	Dam Number
NAME	FIELD_CHAR	40	0	Common Name of Dam
Rating	FIELD_CHAR	4	0	HIGH, MOD, LOW based on downstream risk
DAM_CODE	FIELD_CHAR	3	0	Code 000 Small regulating, or insignificant dams that impounds more than 20 acre-feet of water 007 Small regulating, or insignificant dam that impounds 20 acre-feet of water or less 050 Small, insignificant Flood Control Structure impounding more than 20 acre-feet of water 057 Small, insignificant Flood Control Structure impounding 20 acre-feet of water or less 060 Small industrial structures impounding more than 20 acre-feet of water 067 Small industrial structures impounding 20 acre-feet of water or less 200 Inspected dams that are neither flood control or industrial and impound more than 20 acre-feet of water 207 Inspected dams that are neither flood control or industrial and impound 20 acre-feet of water or less 250 Inspected dams that are flood control and impound more than 20 acre-feet of water 257 Inspected dams that are flood control and impound 20 acre-feet of water or less 260 Inspected dams that are industrial use and impound more than 20 acre-feet of water 267 Inspected dams that are industrial use and impound 20 acre-feet of water or less 300 Inactive dams that are neither flood control or industrial and impound more than 20 acre-feet of water 307 Inactive dams that are neither flood control or industrial and impound 20 acre-feet of water or less 350 Inactive dams that are flood control and impound more than 20 acre-feet of water 357 Inactive dams that are flood control and impound 20 acre-feet of water or less 360 Inactive dams that are industrial use and impound more than 20 acre-feet of water 367 Inactive dams that are industrial use and impound 20 acre-feet of water or less 400 Planned or under construction structures that are neither flood control or industrial and impound more than 20 acre-feet of water 407 Planned or under construction structures that are neither flood control or industrial and impound 20 acre-feet of water or less 450 Planned or under construction structures that are flood control and impound more than 20 acre-feet of water 457 Planned or under construction structures that are flood control and impound 20 acre-feet of water or less 460 Planned or under construction structures that are industrial use and impound more than 20 acre-feet of water 467 Planned or under construction structures that are industrial use and impound 20 acre-feet of water or less 500 Never-been-inspected (Needs investigation) 503 Never-been-inspected insignificant structures 509 Never-been-inspected out-of-state structures and some miscellaneous out-of-state structures 600 Plans and/or construction have been canceled or put on hold indefinitely 800 Inspected by other agency/Inspection report must be submitted to Dam Safety Office. 900 Federally inspected dams