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Land Subsidence & Aquifer-System Compaction: 1987-2005

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Descriptive nameLand Subsidence & Aquifer-System Compaction: 1987-2005
File namesbsd8705
Spatial domainEastern Pima County
AbstractSBSD8705 displays land subsidence (and rebound) in 1" increments across the Tucson metro area and parts of Avra Valley and south-central Pinal County. This layer shows as "Figure 12" in the 2007 USGS report: "Land Subsidence and Aquifer-System Compaction in the Tucson Active Management Area, South-Central Arizona, 1987-2005". See more information.
Known errors/qualificationsSee USGS report for description of scattered data interpolation methods.
Feature typepolygon
Feature count 26
Thumbnail Map sbsd8705.pdf PDF file format   (426,482 bytes, PDF created 07/20/2022 )
ProjectionNAD83 HPGN (Parameters)
Rectificationunknown
Field/value metadata Field metadata
Source organizationUSGS
Source contactDonald R. Pool
Source document or file name
Source date20071201
Source scale
Source formatGrid
Date of last data update
(This date may not be current.)
20071227
Last data update byMike List
Date/time last touched - Meaning? 2021-04-26  12:14 AM - Enterprise GDB
  2021-04-26  12:15 AM - Shapefile - Library input format
  See coverage files, if any, for date.
LineageUSGS provided a raster of interpolated subsidence values. One inch contours were drawn from this surface, smoothed, and built into polygons.
On maintenance?No
Maintenance organization
Maintenance description
Original conversion byMike List
Pima County ITD GIS contactMike List
Alternate Pima County ITD GIS contacte-mail address
On  Pima County Geospatial Data Portal? No

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