Description: The polygons for this layer were extracted from the National Hydrography Dataset layer named "NHDWaterbody". Polygons were extracted for the Chesapeake Bay Watershed portion of the Commonwealth of Virginia. The polygons were overlaid with line segments created for the Perennial Stream dataset, and lines that fell within these polygons were erased. The layers contains two attribute columns as follows:Type - Describes the type of feature which was copied from the original NHD column named "Ftype"MajorDis - This column is used to determine which features to draw when zoomed out when the features are viewed using the public web mapping applicationFor more information on the original NHD dataset, visit the following website: https://www.usgs.gov/national-hydrography/national-hydrography-dataset
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Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation