GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS

Historical Maps of Environmental Interest

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In 1992, the Broward County Environmental Protection Department (EPD) joined thousands of organizations by implementing a geographical information system (GIS) into its operations. What is GIS? Quite simply, GIS is a way to geographically display and analyze various types of information on maps. GIS users generally need to know about many aspects of the land area in question. For example, a forester might be concerned with soil types, slope, age of forests, and projected yields. Prior to building new homes, a developer would want to know about zoning, accessibility of schools and shopping, and availability of water, sewage, electricity, and previous land uses.

Contained in this environmental atlas are those maps most frequently requested by the public. The maps are for informational purposes only.

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Much of the data listed below is historical and has not been recently updated.  For the most current GIS Maps, please go to the Broward County GIS site at http://gis.broward.org/BC_Maps/Maps.aspx

• Ambient Monitoring Site Locations -- (1,625 KB)
  Location of Air, Surface water and Ground water sites that are monitored on a regular bases
• Borrow Pit Reclamation Projects -- (1,723 KB)
  Landfills or Borrow Pit Reclamation Projects in Broward County    
• Brownfields 
• Compress Natural Gas -- (341 KB)
  Compress Natural Gas refueling station in Broward County
• Contaminated Sites/Well Field Protection Zones -- (2,170 KB)
  Sites in Broward County that has been determined to have contaminated the environment in one form or another
• Drainage Basins -- (345 KB)
  Hygrologic Basins as defined by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
• Drainage Districts -- (201 KB)
  Special taxing districts for surface water management and flood control
• Electric Charging Station -- (384 KB)
  Broward County Electric Charging Station
• FEMA Flood Map -- (811 KB)
  Federal Emergency Management Agency designation of flood zones used to determine flood insurance rate
• Flood Zones and 100 year Flood Elevation -- (772 KB)
  100 year flood contour lines
• Hazardous Material Transfer Stations 
• Natural Resource Areas (LAPCs) -- (1,852 KB)
  Local Areas of Particular concern, Environmentally sensitive land, Natural Resources area and Upland Tree Resources area
• Municipality Boundaries -- (523 KB)
  State parks, County Parks, City Parks and Municipalities Boundaries
• Potable Water Supply Service -- (794 KB)
  Water supply utility districts
• Reefs -- Artificial -- (1,168 KB)
  Artificial Reefs in Broward County
• Reef -- Natural -- (1,340 KB)
  Natural Reefs of Broward County
• Delineation of Saltwater Intrusion -- (1,124 KB)
  The approximate inland extent of saltwater intrusion
• Sewer Service Areas -- (1,219 KB)
  Area that has sewer service available
• Soils -- (544 KB)
  General soil type
• Licensed Solid Waste Mgmnt Facilities -- (1,712 KB)
  Solid waste facilities that are licensed
• Wastewater Treatment Areas -- (500 KB)
  Areas serviced by each waste water treatment plant
• Broward County Wetland -- (4,293 KB)
  Areas that contain soils and hydrology to support wetland plants e.g. mangroves, marsh, wetprairies, etc.

For additional GIS maps of Broward County, please go to the GIS site at http://gis.broward.org/BC_Maps/Maps.aspx