Bay Section Boundaries NBEP2017 (shapefile)

Narragansett Bay, Little Narragansett Bay, and the Southwest Coastal Ponds are the three estuarine study areas under the purview of the Narragansett Bay Estuary Program. This dataset represents all coastal waters and the coastline of Rhode Island and portions of coastline in neighboring Connecticut and Massachusetts, divided into thirteen sections of NBEP’s study areas according to all available information and the most common delineations of NBEP’s study areas. It includes the estuaries, the salt ponds, and estuarine tributaries.This dataset was created for the 2017 State of Narragansett Bay and Its Watershed Technical Report (nbep.org) and is intended for use in general planning, GIS analysis, and mapping at watershed and subwatershed scales.