Ghost Waters is a proprietary Transect data layer that predicts unmapped waterways.
In this article, you will learn the following:
What are Ghost Waters?
Ghost Waters can be stream channels, agricultural ditches, drainage ditches, canals, and other water features that may be under the jurisdiction of Federal or State governments, or both.
How can this layer help me?
The significance of Transects’ ability to identify Ghost Waters is that the majority of streams in a watershed are unmapped on federal datasets such as the National Wetlands Inventory (NWI) and National Hydrography Dataset (NHD). Thus, when planning a land development project, most developers are unaware of the constraints presented by Ghost Waters. Failure to identify waterways early in the development planning process usually results in delays and costly permitting. In the worst cases, these “Ghost Waters” that have been unidentified can kill a project altogether.
How to use Ghost Waters
If Ghost Waters are present within your project area they will appear within the map layers of your report.
1. Active Ghost Water by clicking on the box to the left of the Ghost Waters layer
2. Select turn layer on
