A watershed is defined as the land around a body of water where all rain, snowmelt and other water eventually flows into a lake, pond, wetland, river or stream.
Watershed areas are extremely sensitive to human influence.
The Croton Watershed Land Use classification System has been developed with the intent to utilize parcel-based information and reclassify lands within each watershed community to properly associate the use of land with environmental sensitivity. Westchester County GIS has recently developed an Internet tax parcel map for Town of New Castle. The Internet tax parcel map allows users to view the tax parcel map and query tax parcel information interactively using Internet browser. The users can search for a property or adjacent parcels by parcel section block lot number, parcel address, or owner name. The users can also enter a complex query based on their own criteria to search the properties.