Chesapeake Bay Resource Management Areas

This layer was created using a combination of erodibility and permeability information sourced from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Web Soil Survey, floodplain data sourced from the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation's (DCR) Flood Risk Information System (VFRIS), tidal flow paths as described by the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) in the Virginia Water Quality Standards dataset, and wetlands data sourced from the National Wetlands Inventory (NWI).