GIS of the Deep Creek Lake Watershed
A GIS of the Deep Creek Lake watershed can be extremely helpful in diagnosing potential problems and track evolving events or conditions. There are many data sets that can be displayed with such a system in a user friendly manner and queried for certain aspects. The following is a tentative and preliminary list of data sets that are eminently suited to be included in a Deep Creek Lake watershed GIS.
- Lake bathymetry
- Sedimentation rates
- Land elevation map
- Streams
- Culverts emptying into the lake
- Shoreline recession rates
- SAV distribution
- Shoreline condition (protected, severe erosion, moderate erosion, etc.)
- Water quality measures
- Water well locations
- Land use types
- Survey monument locations
- Buy-down property boundaries
- Zoning
- Parcels
- Location of past events on the lake