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  "notes": "ZIP file for South African rivers in drainage region ALL 
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  "notes": "ZIP file for South African rivers in drainage region ALL 
            
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created on 2012-04-16 - 08:06:57\r\nby the Resource Quality Services 
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created on 2012-04-16 - 08:06:57\r\nby the Resource Quality Services 
            
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directorate of the Department of Water Affairs.\r\nThis is the release 
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directorate of the Department of Water Affairs.\r\nThis is the release 
            
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of 2012-04-16 - 08:06:57 and may still contain errors and 
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of 2012-04-16 - 08:06:57 and may still contain errors and 
            
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inconsistencies.\r\nThe developers would welcome any feedback and 
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inconsistencies.\r\nThe developers would welcome any feedback and 
            
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    "description": "The Department of Water and Sanitation is the 
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    "description": "The Department of Water and Sanitation is the 
            
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custodian of South Africa's water resources. It is primarily 
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custodian of South Africa's water resources. It is primarily 
            
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responsible for the formulation and implementation of policy governing 
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responsible for the formulation and implementation of policy governing 
            
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this sector.\r\n\r\nWhile striving to ensure that all South Africans 
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this sector.\r\n\r\nWhile striving to ensure that all South Africans 
            
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gain access to clean water and dignified sanitation, the department 
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gain access to clean water and dignified sanitation, the department 
            
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also promotes effective and efficient water resources management to 
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also promotes effective and efficient water resources management to 
            
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ensure sustainable economic and social development.",
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ensure sustainable economic and social development.",
            
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drainage region ALL created on 2012-04-16 - 08:06:57\r\nby the 
            
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Resource Quality Services directorate of the Department of Water 
            
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Affairs.\r\nThis is the release of 2012-04-16 - 08:06:57 and may still 
            
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contain errors and inconsistencies.\r\nThe developers would welcome 
            
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any feedback and corrections.\r\n(Please include river reachcodes when 
            
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reporting errors.)\r\nContact address: 
            
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SilberbauerM@dwa.gov.za\r\n\r\n-----------------\r\nThe files 
            
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are:\r\nWRI_500-GEO.HTM: metadata summary.\r\nWRI_500-GEO.JPG: 
            
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subsidiary file required for correct display of metadata 
            
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summary.\r\nSA.JPG: subsidiary file required for correct display of 
            
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metadata summary.\r\nMETADATA.XML: metadata generated in ESRI xml 
            
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format.\r\nQAT4QAT8.TXT: lookup table for conversion from South 
            
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African to USGS-style quaternary codes.\r\n(mainly of interest to ESA 
            
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BASINS users).\r\nWRIALL500.AVL: legend file for ArcView 3.x - line 
            
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width proportional to Strahler 
            
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order.\r\n-----------------\r\nWRIALL500.PRJ: ESRI projection 
            
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definition file.\r\nWRIALL500.SHP.XML: ESRI metadata 
            
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file.\r\nWRIALL500.SHP, WRIALL500.SHX, WRIALL500.DBF: ESRI shape file 
            
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components.\r\nThe shape file contains the South African 1:500 000 
            
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river coverage\r\nfor drainage region(s) ALL, in the Cape Datum, 
            
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geographical coordinates.\r\n(All editing occurred in Albers Equal 
            
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Area projection for exact tolerance setting.)\r\n(The data is being 
            
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kept in its original datum until a standard datum-shift 
            
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to\r\nHartebeesthoek94 or WGS84 is agreed upon, to avoid inadvertent 
            
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data corruption.)\r\nThe fields may include:\r\n\r\n.  
            
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---------------\r\n(1) INTERNAL FIELDS (ignore)\r\n.  
            
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===============\r\nSHAPE, FNODE_,TNODE_, LPOLY_, RPOLY_, LENGTH, 
            
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TMPRIV_, TMPRIV_ID.\r\n\r\n(2) ATTRIBUTES (sequence may differ)\r\n.   
            
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==========\r\nNAME: generally, the name assigned to the reach on a 
            
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topographical map\r\n- sometimes the correctness is uncertain.\r\n- 
            
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ALIAS: alternate name or names for the reach, separated by \\.\r\n- 
            
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RIVN_ROOT: For multilingual annotation purposes (prototype): the root 
            
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of the river name.\r\n- RIVN_SUFX: The qualifier of the river name, 
            
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e.g. river, spruit, loop.\r\nCLASS: unreliable indicator of 
            
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seasonality of river flow. The classes and allocation require 
            
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review:\r\n- Dry=dry river, Perennial=perennial river, 
            
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or not transferred from source map.\r\nPRIMARY: primary drainage 
            
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region where the reach occurs.\r\n- a lower-case letter indicates a 
            
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pseudo drainage region outside South Africa.\r\nORDER: Strahler order, 
            
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starting from source=1.\r\nEND: S=Source, N=iNtermediate, M=Mouth, 
            
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E=Endorheic.\r\nREACHCODE: 10-character reach code made up as 
            
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follows:\r\n- 1 to 4: quaternary drainage region in which MOST of the 
            
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river falls.\r\n(Note that USA programs such as BASINS expect eight 
            
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numerical digits.\r\nThe qat4qat8.txt lookup table contains the 
            
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appropriate DWA to USA conversions.)\r\n- 5 to 6: arbitrary sequence 
            
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number of the reaches within a quaternary drainage region.\r\n- 7 to 
            
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10: four zeroes (0000) in the 1:500 000 coverage, intended for later 
            
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use at more detailed scale.\r\nSORTER: internal sorting field - always 
            
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increases downstream in river network\r\nLENGTH_KM:  length of reach 
            
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in kilometres (not to be confused with the meaningless LENGTH 
            
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field).\r\nRivEX fields:  (see http://www.rivex.co.uk/)\r\n- SEGMENT : 
            
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Channel identifier.\r\n- STRAHLER:  Horton-Strahler order.\r\n- 
            
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field, above. E=Exterior, I=Interior, O=Outlet.\r\n- CATCHID:  
            
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node of each arc.\r\n- MAINCHAN : Main channel identifier.\r\n- 
            
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