Wetland Delineation and Surveying Resources

National Wetland Plant List

• Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain 2014 Regional Wetland Plant List (.pdf 1.6MB)

• Eastern Mountains and Piedmont 2014 Regional Wetland Plant List (.pdf 1.2MB)

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Wetlands Delineation Manual

• Manual, January 1987

• Regional Supplement to the Corps of Engineers Wetland Delineation Manual: Eastern Mountains and Piedmont Region, April 2012

• Regional Supplement to the Corps of Engineers Wetland Delineation Manual: Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain Region, November 2010

• U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Norfolk District Wetland Hydrology Determinations for the 2010 Monitoring Season, March 2010

• The Nationwide Plant List, October 2014

Wetland and SAV Mapping Standards

• Chesapeake Bay Submerged Aquatic Vegetation (SAV) Ground Survey Directions

• Federal Geographic Data Committee Wetlands Mapping Standard, July 2009

• U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Data Collection Requirements and Procedures for Mapping Wetland, Deepwater, and Related Habitats of the United States, July 2009

Articles

• Readily Available Hydrologic Models: Pertinence to Regulatory Application
  B.A. Pruitt, Wetlands Regulatory Assistance Program ERDC/TN WRAP-20-1, 12 pp., September 2020.

• Delineations call for Adjustment in Northeast Wetland Plant Indicator List, March 2003

• Echinochloa crusgalli (Barnyard Grass) Indicator Status Correction, December 2000 (see pages 2 and 3 of pdf)

• A Comparison of Wetland Areas in Northern Virginia: NWI Maps versus Field-Delineated Wetlands Under the 1987 Manual (M. Rolband, Wetland Journal, Winter 1995)

• Comparison of USACE Three-Factor Wetland Delineations to National Wetland Inventory Maps
  (E. Gage, D.J. Cooper, R. Lichvar, Wetlands 40: 1097-1105, May 2020)

General Information

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Regulatory Permitting Program Brochure 

Surveying

• Public Trust Doctrine: A Legal Principle of Surveying (July 2008)

• Problems with Vertical and Horizontal Survey Datums, Field Notes, Vol. 17 No. 5 (September 2009)

Memorandums of Agreement (MOA) on Wetlands

• Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS) and the U.S Department of the Army: Guidance on Conducting Wetland Determinations for the Food Service Act of 1985 and Section 404 of the Clean Water Act, 2005

• U.S Department of Agriculture: Distribution of Wetland MOA -Virginia Interagency Local Operating Procedures, 1995 (superseded by 2005 NRCS document above)