The Major Water Sources list was created by IDNR to address concerns that new confinements would be constructed within view of "floatable/canoeable" rivers. The definition of major water source in Iowa Administrative Code - Natural Resource Commission - Chapter 65 is: "a water source that is a lake, reservoir, river or stream located within the territorial limits of the state, or any marginal river area adjacent to the state, if the water source is capable of supporting a floating vessel capable of carrying one or more persons during a total of a six month period in one out of ten years, excluding periods of flooding." The list was created by getting the counties to identify "canoeable" streams and with additional input from DNR staff.
This dataset has the following 7 columns:
| Column Name | API Column Name | Data Type | Sample Values |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lake Name | lake_name | text | Hale Ponds Spring Lake Hawthorn Lake Watershed Ponds RAPP Park Lakes Swift Slough view top 100 |
| Alternate Name | alt_name | text | West Hartman Pond, Shirley Lake Barge Lake Big Timber Complex Dark Slough Doe Wood Lake view top 100 |
| County | county | text | Jackson Washington Des Moines Allamakee Black Hawk view top 100 |
| Owner | owner | text | County State Federal City State-Sovereign Water view top 100 |
| Type | type | text | Pond Backwater Lake Surface Mines Constructed Lake Impoundment view top 100 |
| Location | location | text | Three miles east of hale Southwest edge of Fairfield 5 m W Sperry north edge of Shenandoah 3 1/2 miles north of Forest City view top 100 |
| the_geom | the_geom | multipolygon | view top 100 |