Urban Watercourses

Perennial and intermittent natural surface water flow identified and recognized as a watercourse by the Seattle Public Utilities.This layer displays the urban watercourses showing open stream channels and flow within culverts, drainage laterals, and drainage mainlines.  The Washington State Department of Natural Resources typing code for channel and fish use and the WRIA (Washington State Department of Ecology Water Resource Inventory Area) code are included.  Refreshed weekly.  Maintained by DWW Maintenance staff and USM.

Data and Resources

Field Value
accessLevel public
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issued 2018-11-13
landingPage https://data-seattlecitygis.opendata.arcgis.com/maps/SeattleCityGIS::urban-watercourses
metadata_type geospatial
modified 2022-03-23
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publisher City of Seattle GIS Program
resource-type Dataset
source_datajson_identifier true
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source_schema_version 1.1
spatial {"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": [[[-122.4209, 47.4903], [-122.4209, 47.7552], [-122.25, 47.7552], [-122.25, 47.4903], [-122.4209, 47.4903]]]}
theme {geospatial}
Groups
  • AmeriGEOSS
  • National Provider
  • North America
Tags
  • amerigeo
  • amerigeoss
  • ckan
  • drainage
  • dww
  • eca
  • environment
  • geo
  • geoss
  • gis
  • national
  • north-america
  • riparian
  • river
  • spu
  • storm
  • streams
  • united-states
  • urban-watercourses
  • water
  • wildlife
isopen False
license_id notspecified
license_title License not specified
maintainer PublicUtilities_SeattleCityGIS
maintainer_email mapgis.mapgis@seattle.gov
metadata_created 2025-11-20T18:52:25.221346
metadata_modified 2025-11-20T18:52:25.221349
notes <div style='text-align:Left;'><div><p><span><span>Perennial and intermittent natural surface water flow identified and recognized as a watercourse by the Seattle Public Utilities.</span></span></p><p><span><span>This layer displays the urban watercourses showing open stream channels and flow within culverts, drainage laterals, and drainage mainlines.  The Washington State Department of Natural Resources typing code for channel and fish use and the WRIA (Washington State Department of Ecology Water Resource Inventory Area) code are included.  <br /></span></span></p><p><span><span>Refreshed weekly.  Maintained by DWW Maintenance staff and USM.<br /></span></span></p></div></div>
num_resources 6
num_tags 21
title Urban Watercourses