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CONNECTICUT MUNICIPAL AND PRIVATE OPEN SPACE
Description:
This is a 1:24,000-scale datalayer of property owned by Connecticut municipalities and private organizations for the purpose of preserving open space. It is a polygon Shapefile that primarily includes land conservation trust property, town open space, parks, school playgrounds, campgrounds, golf courses, club and association recreational property, and cemetaries. This information was compiled by the Environmental and Geographic Information Center, Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) and the Office of Policy and Management (OPM). Over the course of many years, DEP and OPM periodically collected and updated the mapping of municipal and private open space based on information obtained from municipalities and land trust organizations. DEP and OPM mapped the open space property boundaries on 7½ Minute U.S. Geological Survey topographic quadrangle maps and digitized them at 1:24,000 scale (1 inch = 2,000 feet). This information is not complete and is out of date. The property boundaries have not been field checked or verified with surveys. This information has not been updated or corrected by DEP or OPM since about 1997. EPA obtained this data from the State of Connecticut.