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4 Open Water - Fresh & Salt

4 - Open water: Example: 415 = River

00 - All open water (Waterbodies that are a combination of any
    two categories listed below)
10 - Fresh water
11 - Fresh water lakes
12 - Municipal ponds (including reservoirs, storm water retention)
13 - Channeled scabland ponds (Eastern Washington)
14 - Sewage ponds
15 - Fresh moving water (Use this code for rivers)
17 - Manmade canals (Manmade canals can be either irrigation
    or roadside ditches)
18 - Irrigation ponds (Irrigation ponds are manmade ponds near
    agriculture fields)
20 - Salt water
21 - Tidal pools
26 - Saltwater shorelines, Heavy Development: >60% development
27 - Saltwater shorelines, Moderate Development: 30-60% development & 1 pier/200 feet
28 - Saltwater shorelines, Light Development: 10-30% surface development, and no more than & 1 pier per 0.5 mile
29 - Rocks, cobble, gravel, boulder
30 - Brackish water (This the area where the fresh water from
    large rivers meets salt water. Brackish salt water marshes would be coded the same as estuarine marshes, under the wetlands category)


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