This dataset is a compilation of ownership rights represented as parcels owned by the Sacramento & San Joaquin Drainage District of the State of California (SSJDD), under the authority of the Central Valley Flood Protection Board (CVFPB).

This dataset is a compilation of ownership rights represented as parcels owned by the Sacramento & San Joaquin Drainage District of the State of California (SSJDD), under the authority of the Central Valley Flood Protection Board (CVFPB). The parcels include geospatial data and links to related source documents and were created from DWR's cadastral records currently represented as digital GIS, CAD, and scanned documents as well as hardcopy records stored in binders and filing cabinets at DWR headquarters. DWR requires GIS based parcel data to manage land records defining the location of SSJDD land rights and easements for the CVFPB. The GIS representation of land records provides an index to property records, and CAD COGO based mapping will enable the CVFPB and other entities to more efficiently identify property rights. This data set was created to improve the efficiency accessing the land records and the organization of the land records. It is anticipated this data set will serve as the authoritative source for the next 50-100 years when managed with incremental updates reflecting ongoing updates to parcel ownership and rights. Users are advised to read the dataset's metadata thoroughly to understand appropriate use and data limitations. Rights attributes (annotated with "PART OF RIGHTS ATTRIBUTE GROUP: " in the Column Definition within the Entity and Attribute section of this metadata) are restricted to use by the CVFPB and DWR's Geodetic and Real Estate branches. Please see 'Distribution Info' for details. The rest of the attributes may be consumed publicly.

,Following adoption of the 2012 Central Valley Flood Protection Plan (2012 CVFPP), DWR funded six regionally-led Regional Flood Management Plans (RFMPs) that describe local and regional flood management priorities and challenges. These RFMPs also identify potential funding mechanisms and site-specific improvement needs.,The Regional Flood Management Planning Regions (RFMP) boundaries were created from the 2013 Levee Flood Protection Zones (LFPZs). Waterways were filled in and the boundaries were broken into the six planning areas by GEI Consultants Inc.,This is the second generation of study areas after the 2012 CVFPP for more specific regional planning efforts with local agencies.,

In California, there are a variety of political entities that are granted self-taxation powers under various California codes in order to perform the basic goal of flood management within an area. This dataset compiles many of the various datasets together to provide the information in one location. It also includes districts that are no longer active political/management entities for archival or historical purposes. The primary type of flood agency in California are known as reclamation districts, and so represent the majority of the records in this database. The quality of the boundary accuracy is highly variable, due to a variety of reasons, including the fact that the original legal boundaries are frequently tied to Swamp Land Survey boundaries that themselves are poorly located by modern mapping standards. This set of boundary delineations represents the latest in a series of nearly 20 significant revisions primarily by DWR Delta Levees Program between 2000-2017 to a dataset first produced by Office of Emergency Services during the 1997 floods. The accuracy and completeness of the data are therefore higher in the Delta than elsewhere. The Division of Flood Management then stored the boundaries in their levee geodatabase that feeds the web mapping application known as FERIX. To produce this final dataset, in 2018 the Division of Engineering Geodetic Branch merged the data used by FERIX, along with other datasets used by the Delta Levees Program, and normalized the attribute table.

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This dataset is a compilation of ownership rights represented as parcels owned by the State of California, Department of Water Resources. The associated data are considered DWR enterprise GIS data, which meet all appropriate requirements of the DWR Spatial Data Standards, specifically the DWR Spatial Data Standard version 3.6, dated September 27, 2023.DWR makes no warranties or guarantees —either expressed or implied — as to the completeness, accuracy, or correctness of the data. DWR neither accepts nor assumes liability arising from or for any incorrect, incomplete, or misleading subject data. Comments, problems, improvements or suggestions should be forwarded to gis@water.ca.gov. This version is considered current as of 5/29/2025.

In the Delta Anatomy Mapping Project all levee anatomies were delineated using slope grids built from available LIDAR data points. LIDAR data points were converted to digital elevation models and subsequently into slope grids. Thresholds were identified that capture the levee crown, levee landside, levee waterside, ramps and toe ditches. Visual interpretations of slope thresholds were used in conjunction with heads-up digitizing to maintain smooth boundaries at a scale of 1:550. The delineation thresholds were derived from a combination of mapping scale, slope grid resolution and slope thresholds used for each anatomy classification. All anatomy has gone through an internal quality control process to ensure a minimum locational quality of +/- 3 feet. Anatomy was further reviewed and tested by DWR for compliance with an interpretive mapping standard of 80% accuracy. This data depicts the levee anatomy at the time of the LiDAR survey (2007) and are only accurate for that time. Users should be aware that temporal changes may have occurred since this data set was created and some parts of this data may no longer represent actual surface conditions.

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Detailed center lines of the Sacramento-San Joaquin levee systems, and broken into singular segments of consistent-attribute sets. The use of high-resolution LiDAR, and the products derived from it, allow for levee anatomy to be captured for the surveyed area. The resulting data allows for the levee crown sections to be isolated and collapsed to a centerline, detailing the route of the levee system. This data can further be used for levee maintenance and management, flood modeling and prediction, as well as levee inventories. The data are therefore mostly the structural center lines of the levees, with some minor modifications as warranted. In the Delta Anatomy Mapping Project, all levee anatomies were delineated using slope grids built from available 2007 Delta LIDAR data points. LIDAR data points were converted to digital elevation models and subsequently into slope grids. Thresholds were identified that capture the levee crown, levee landside, levee waterside, ramps and toe ditchesi. The associated data are considered DWR enterprise GIS data, which meet all appropriate requirements of the DWR Spatial Data Standards, specifically the DWR Spatial Data Standard version 3.1, dated September 11, 2019. DWR makes no warranties or guarantees — either expressed or implied — as to the completeness, accuracy, or correctness of the data. DWR neither accepts nor assumes liability arising from or for any incorrect, incomplete, or misleading subject data. Comments, problems, improvements, updates, or suggestions should be sent to gis@water.ca.gov.