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Data Descriptions

Community Water System Service Area Boundaries

Data is available HERE

Columns denoted with '*' reflect added columns to conform with recently developed service area data standards and do not have data for all systems.

Column Decription
PWSID Public water system identifier as assigned by SDWIS.
PWS_Name Name of public water system as reported to SDWIS.
Primacy_Agency The state or EPA region that holds primacy over the system and handles reporting.
Pop_Cat_5 A category variable derived by SDWIS that denotes the number of people served by a system. Possible values are "<=500", "501-3,300", "3,301-10,000","10,000-100,000" and ">100,000".
Population_Served_Count The reported population that the system serves.
Service_Connections_Count The reported number of service connections in the system.
Method The method used to derive the service area. Possible values include "Census Place", "Decision Tree", "OSM", "Parcel", "Random Forest" and "State".
Service_Area_Type The primary type of area served by the system as reported to SDWIS
Symbology_Field The symbology used for the web application, possible values are "MODELED" and "STATE".
*Original_Data_Provider Source of data.
*Data Provider Type Type of source for original data.
*Boundary Method How Original Data was Sourced.
*Method Basis How original data was developed.
*Date Created Date of creation.
*Date Modified Date service area was modified.
*System Type Type of system. The only value here is "Water Service Area"
*Verification Status Whether the service area has been verified to be correct.
*Verification Date Date of verification.
*Verification Process How verification was performed.
*Verifier Type Type of entity that performed verification (ex: Non-Profit, Municipality)