NFEPA rivers 2011

This GIS layer summarizes the river condition, river ecosystem types and freeflowing river information that were used in deriving Freshwater Ecosystem Priority Areas (FEPAs) for river ecosystems. It used the 1:500,000 river GIS layer available from Mike Silberbauer at DWA (SilberbauerM@dwa.gov.za). FEPA status applies to the maintem river reach of each sub-quaternary catchment and FEPA status for each river reach is also provided in this GIS layer. •For a detailed description of the FEPA map categories and their management implications (the last two attributes on this shapefile) please refer to the NFEPA Atlas, Implementation Manual or metadata for the River FEPAs shapefile (River_FEPAs_30Jul11.docx – under the metadata folder).