California Business Rules for Updating the National Hydrography Dataset, 2021 update

This document describes the rules that our stewardship program's editors of California's portion of the NHD followed when editing the data. These rules were written for editing work for the 1:24,000 scale NHD. The authors are Erik Fintel of the California State University, Chico Center for Geographical Studies, and Joel Osuna-Williams of the California State University, Northridge Center for Geospatial Science and Technology. Please direct questions to the lead steward for the California NHD at Jane.Schafer-Kramer@water.ca.gov.