Open water for King County and portions of adjacent counties

For more information about this layer please see the GIS Data Catalog. Open water features, both natural and anthropic, for King County and portions of adjacent counties. Features can be displayed as water or non water to distinguished between water and land. FEAT_TYPE item defines multiple classes of features, primarily lakes/ponds and streams rivers. Puget Sound and significant double-banked streams and rivers are shown, plus a limited number of manmade features such as aqueducts, ditches, channels and flumes. Areal open water features are mainly differentiated as either Lakes/Ponds or Impoundments roughly defined as natural and anthropic, respectively. This layer includes wetlands only to the extent that the open water portion of emergent wetlands is mapped. A value in the STATUS item indicates whether the water feature is associated with a wetland, dependent on best available ancillary data and orthoimagery. The name of features, where available, is included. By using the SUBSET item the layer can be defined to show only the larger water bodies and rivers.