GIS Analysis by Middle Fork GIS
Prepared for the City of Bellingham, Washington under lead consultant Northwest Ecological Services by Middle Fork Geographic Information Services, November, 2004
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Under the 2004 SMA update project, shoreline areas falling under the jurisdiction of the State of Washington were identified and their physical, biological, and human use characteristics examined. In Bellingham, these Waters of the State include the marine shoreline, and those of Lakes Whatcom & Padden, and Squalicum, Whatcom, Padden, & Chuckanut Creeks.
Specifically, jurisdications were defined as the greater of 200' from floodWAY boundary or edge of 100-year floodplain or edge of wetland that is contiguous / overlaps into 200' zone. please inventory waterward 200' of lakes OHWM and in marine; 200' from MLLT (to capture all of intertidal /nearshore areas). From a GIS standpoint, the project involved the integration of vast amounts of geospatial data: City base layers, National Wetlands Inventory, FEMA floodways, DNR Intertidal survey data; aerial imagery; historical maps; and more. The photo to the right depicts a representative of the shoreline jurisdiction and analysis 'segments' or 'reaches.' Within each reach, the array of geospatial characteristics were tabulated into areal totals and distributions, and analyzed by the project lead in determination of the ecological and physical characteristics therein. |  |