OVERVIEW

Massachusetts is blessed with over 1200 miles of seashore and hundreds of lakes, ponds, and streams. The Public Access Board (PAB) in the Department of Fisheries, Wildlife and Environmental Law Enforcement is charged with providing access to these many waterways. Presently, the agency oversees boat and canoe launch sites at over 170 coastal and inland locations in Massachusetts.

This point layer contains 164 sites. The principal source for this layer has been Public Access to the Waters of Massachusetts published by the PAB. Additional sites have been digitized from USGS topographic quadrangles. In ArcSDE the layer is named PAB_PT.

Display each PAB site interactively with the Public Access Board Sites Viewer.

The datalayer has a polygon attribute table with the following items:

Item Name		Width		Type		Description
PAGE		3		I		Page in book
MAINTRESP		30		C		Maintenance and management responsibility
LRAMPTYPE		8		C		Launch ramp type
NORAMPS		3		I		No. ramps
NOPARKSP		4		I		No. parking spaces
CONDITION		4		C		Condition of ramp
FEE		1		C		Fee required?
STKPRMT		1		C		Sticker required?
RESTRKT		1		C		Restrictions?
COMMENT		30		C
FACNAME		35		C		Facility name
TOWN_ID		4		B		Town ID
TOWN		21		C		Town Name
QUADS_ID		4		B		USGS Quad ID
QUAD-NAME		25		C		Quad name
DOUBLEQUAD		18		C		Double quad name

Maintained by DFWELE GIS program in cooperation with the Public Access Board.

Last Updated 5/31/2007
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