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USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Physical Daily Values, Unit Values 2008-06-01 2024-11-24
n/a Peak Measurements 2009-04-24 2023-04-19
n/a Site Visits 2008-05-01 2024-06-25
n/a USGS Annual Water Data Reports Site 2009-01-01 2023-01-01
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 01017290 is associated with a Stream in Aroostook County, Maine. Current conditions of Discharge and Gage height are available. Water data back to 2008 are available online.

Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
01017290 n/a
Site name
Little Madawaska River at Caribou, Maine n/a
Site type
Stream
ST
DMS latitude 465319 n/a
DMS longitude 0675642 n/a
Decimal latitude 46.8886111 n/a
Decimal longitude -67.945 n/a
Latitude-longitude method
Interpolated from Digital MAP. N
Latitude-longitude accuracy
Accurate to + or - .5 sec (PLGR/PPS GPS). 5
Latitude-longitude datum
North American Datum of 1983 NAD83
Decimal Latitude-longitude datum North American Datum of 1983 NAD83
District
Maine 23
State
Maine 23
County
Aroostook County 003
Country US n/a
Land net location description n/a
Name of location map Fort Fairfield NW n/a
Scale of location map 24000 n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface 399.71 feet n/a
Method altitude determined GNSS2 - Level 2 Quality Survey Grade Global Navigation Satellite System X
Altitude accuracy .12 feet n/a
Altitude datum
North American Vertical Datum of 1988 NAVD88
Subbasin hydrologic unit
Aroostook 01010004
Drainage basin
n/a
Topographic setting
n/a
Flags for instruments at site YNNNYNYNNYNNNNNNYNNNNNNNNNNNNN n/a
Date of first construction
n/a
Date site established or inventoried 200805 n/a
Drainage area
233 square miles n/a
Contributing drainage area 233 square miles n/a
Time Zone abbreviation EST n/a
Site honors Daylight Saving Time
Y n/a
Data reliability
n/a
Data-other GW files n/a
National aquifer n/a
Local aquifer n/a
Local aquifer type
n/a
Well depth n/a
Hole depth
n/a
Source of depth data n/a
Project number 001 n/a

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