Dec 3, 2011 – USDA Forests to Faucets Project – GIS Maps help Utilities
December 3, 2011
SAN ANDREAS – New maps posted online this month by the U.S. Forest Service pinpoint where the nation’s drinking water is most jeopardized by wildfires and other threats to high-country forests.
One of the hot spots, according to the maps, is the headwaters of the Mokelumne River in the high Sierra east of Stockton.
The USDA Forest Service Forests to Faucets project uses GIS to model and map the continental United States land areas most important to surface drinking water, the role forests play in protecting these areas, and the extent to which these forests are threatened by development, insects and disease, and wildland fire.
