The Data Layers include the following.Flooding: Regions that flood during heavy rainfall.Intermittent Streams: Areas flow as streams during heavy rainfall.Community drinking Water Sources: Locations where villagers used to collect water for drinking, most do not use anymore and only use ASPA water.Trash Accumulation: Locations where trash accumulates in streams and other accumulated locations within the village such as corners of roads where water pools.Cultivated Lands: Areas used for cultivation mostly small local cultivations behind households only a few larger cultivated areas.Cesspools: Areas that are not on sewer and still have cesspools. Other Pollution Sources: This category is for other land sources of pollution. Village Clean Up: These areas are designated as village cleanup areas and have a regular schedule for cleanup. Also included in this layer or in a separate layer is information on Government cleanup which happens primarily along the main road.Informal Dump Sites: These data layers indicate where people dump trash within the village, sometimes it is overflow from dumpsters while other points reperesent where trash is commonly dumped.Important Fishing Areas: Indicate regions of important fishing as outlined by the villagers.
This file geodatabase contains data layers derived from the American Samoa Watershed and Coastal Mapping project for Fatumafuti, Faga'alu, and Utulei villages, conducted in American Samoa in January 2014. These maps are based on information gathered through participatory mapping workshops held in each village, where participatory GIS methods were used to generate spatial data on coastal and watershed uses and characteristics. The project is intended to fill a critical information gap regarding human activities and issues relating to water quality in these coatal watersheds, which include a NOAA Coral reef Conservation Program priority watershed site, in order to better inform planning and management activities.
American Samoa Island of Tutuilla.
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This effort was undertaken as a collaboration between federal and jurisdictional agencies including NOAA's Pacific Islands Regional Office (PIRO), American Samoa's Department of Commerce Coastal Management Program (ASCMP), the American Samoa Department of Marine and Wildlife Resources (DMWR) and American Samoa Environmental Protection Agency (ASEPA). Mapping was facilitated by San Diego State University and One World One Water, LLC. Primary funding for the project is from NOAA's Coral Reef Conservation Program. For mor information regarding the project or process contact: Arielle.Levine@noaa.gov or globalwater@gmail.com.
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