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Important Inventory Page

USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Biological Water-quality 2020-06-15 2023-09-26
Information Water-quality 2020-06-15 2023-09-26
Inorganics, Major, Non-metals Water-quality 2020-06-15 2023-09-26
Nutrient Water-quality 2020-06-15 2023-08-28
Organics, other Water-quality 2020-06-15 2023-09-26
Physical Water-quality 2020-06-15 2023-09-26
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 01208839 is associated with an Estuary in New Haven County, Connecticut. Water data back to 2020 are available online.

Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
01208839 n/a
Site name
HOUSATONIC RIVER NEAR MILFORD POINT AT DEVON, CT n/a
Site type
Estuary
ES
DMS latitude 411015.60 n/a
DMS longitude 0730639.60 n/a
Decimal latitude 41.171 n/a
Decimal longitude -73.111 n/a
Latitude-longitude method
Interpolated from Digital MAP. N
Latitude-longitude accuracy
Accurate to + or - .1 sec (Differentially-Corrected GPS). 1
Latitude-longitude datum
North American Datum of 1983 NAD83
Decimal Latitude-longitude datum North American Datum of 1983 NAD83
District
Connecticut 09
State
Connecticut 09
County
New Haven County 009
Country US n/a
Land net location description n/a
Name of location map MILFORD, CT n/a
Scale of location map 24000 n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface 2 feet n/a
Method altitude determined Interpolated from topographic map. M
Altitude accuracy .1 feet n/a
Altitude datum
North American Vertical Datum of 1988 NAVD88
Subbasin hydrologic unit
Long Island Sound 02030203
Drainage basin
n/a
Topographic setting
Stream channel
C
Flags for instruments at site NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN n/a
Date of first construction
n/a
Date site established or inventoried 20200528 n/a
Drainage area
n/a
Contributing drainage area 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 n/a