Debris Site Maps (Page last update: 02/07/2007)
These maps display the 'LDEQ Approved Debris Sites' where hurricane debris is dumped. The debris site map set consists of ten maps: one map of the entire state of Louisiana and nine larger scale regional maps. New maps are produced whenever the debris site database is updated.

These maps may be viewed and downloaded from our website in the map archives webpage. The archives contains thumbnails of publicly available maps organized by date. To enter the archives, click on the "Archive Maps" button on the toolbar, then click the "Complete Map Archives Categorized by Year" link.

Raw debris site data is available for download below in several formats: ESRI Personal Geodatase and ESRI Shapefile.

Debris Sites .ZIP file (.MDB/.SHP) 02/07/2007

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Note: There is a lag time between the posting of new debris site data on this page and new maps being produced and published into the map archives.

LDEQ GIS Center Intranet Home page

The Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (LDEQ) has had a department-wide Geographical Information System (GIS) in place since 1994. The GIS Center provides support to all GIS users within LDEQ and constructs maps as requested by LDEQ personnel. The Center also maintains and develops GIS data sets for agency mapping requirements.

What is a GIS? Perhaps the simplest definition would be “A computer system capable of holding and using data describing places on the earth’s surface.” This definition should actually be expanded to include the individual parts of the system that comprise a Geographic Information System. Therefore a better definition would be: “An organized collection of computer hardware, software, geographic data and personnel designed to efficiently capture, store, update, manipulate, analyze, and display all forms of geographically referenced information.”

LDEQ GIS Center personnel use two specific GIS software packages: (1) the Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc (ESRI®) suite of GIS products named ArcGIS™. This suite of products uses vector, or line data (which may be points, lines, or polygons) to represent events or places on the earth’s surface and includes ArcInfo™, ArcMap™, ArcCatalog™, ArcTools™, and ArcView™; and (2) Leica Geosystems ERDAS IMAGINE® Imagine™ which is used to process satellite imagery, aerial photography, radar imagery and other image data, referred to as raster data.

LDEQ GIS Center personnel use these products to produce complex GIS projects. ArcView™, the more “user friendly” software in this package is also being used by upper management to access established GIS data/data sets to assist in making executive level decisions and by other LDEQ personnel to produce specific GIS Projects that assist them in performing their daily tasks. Both of these GIS software packages are used in tandem to create maps which can display attributes of data stored in relational databases.

Make-A-Map

With Make-A-Map, you can make and use interactive maps inside your web browser. It allows you to add many types of data layers, including satellite imagery and aerial photography. Click here to view the Make-A-Map home page.

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