Data and sources

Baseline Site Characteristics

Criteria	Metric(s)	Data Source
Municipality	Municipality name	MassGIS Data: Property Tax Parcels (2023)
Site ownership type	Multi-select: Private parcel Public parcel Right of Way segment	MassGIS Data: Property Tax Parcels (2023)
Ownership	Owner name	MassGIS Data: Property Tax Parcels (2023)
Use description	Use description	Parcel MassGIS Data: Property Tax Parcels (2023)
Parcel ID

Land Cover Characteristics

Criteria	Metric(s)	Data Source
Imperviousness (broken down by roof vs surface imperviousness)	Either: Percent imperviousness Acreage of imperviousness	MassGIS Land Cover Land Use (2016)
Soil hydrology score	Score from 0 –3 based on hydrologic soil group. 0 = highest runoff potential. 3 = highest infiltration potential.	MassGIS Data: Soils SSURGO-Certified NRCS (2021)

Drainage Network

Only available for 5 partner municipalities for which we received local drainage data.

Criteria	Metric(s)	Data Source
Proximity to drainage network	Distance (in feet)	Local data from municipalities
Proximity to catch basins	Distance (in feet)	Local data from municipalities

Equity Considerations

Criteria	Metric(s)	Data Source
Lack of access to Greenspace	In Trust for Public Land’s ParkServe “Priority Areas”	Trust for Public Land (2022)
Low tree canopy	Within a block group in the bottom 40th percentile for tree canopy coverage within the municipality	Land Cover Land Use (2016)
High Urban Heat Island effect	Within a census block that scores in the top 40% of blocks in the municipality for high heat index	MAPC Land Surface Temperature Index (2021)
In EJ community	Within a MassGIS EJ Population	MassGIS EJ Populations (2022)
Community exposure	Within a town center or in a 5-minute walk radius from a school, community center, library, senior center.	MassGIS, MAPC Town Centers

Sensitive Land

Criteria	Metric(s)	Data Source
Wetlands	Overlap with wetlands?	MassDEP Wetlands (2005)
Activity Use Limitations	Overlap with AUL sites?	MassDEP AUL (2023)
Zone II Wellhead Protection Areas	Overlap with Zone II WPA?	MassDEP WPA (2023)
Intermediate Wellhead Protection Areas	Overlap with Intermediate WPA?	MassDEP WPA (2023)
Watershed	Select which watershed(s) overlap	MassGIS – NRCS HUC Basins 10-digit (2005)

Nutrient Load

Criteria	Metric(s)	Data Source
Nutrient load	For impervious land on site: P/acre/yr (lbs) Total P/yr (lbs)	MassGIS Land Cover Land Use (2016) + updated guidance for PLER