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Important Inventory Page

USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Inorganics, Minor, metals Water-quality 1975-05-19 1975-05-19
Nutrient Water-quality 1975-05-19 1975-05-19
Organics, other Water-quality 1975-05-19 1975-05-19
Sediment Water-quality 1975-05-19 1975-05-19
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 01210002 is associated with an Estuary in Fairfield County, Connecticut. Water data back to 1975 are available online.

Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
01210002 n/a
Site name
STAMFORD HARBOR AT STAMFORD, CT. n/a
Site type
Estuary
ES
DMS latitude 410136 n/a
DMS longitude 0733217 n/a
Decimal latitude 41.0267638 n/a
Decimal longitude -73.5376226 n/a
Latitude-longitude method
Interpolated from MAP. M
Latitude-longitude accuracy
Accurate to + or - 1 sec. S
Latitude-longitude datum
North American Datum of 1927 NAD27
Decimal Latitude-longitude datum North American Datum of 1983 NAD83
District
Connecticut 09
State
Connecticut 09
County
Fairfield County 001
Country US n/a
Land net location description n/a
Name of location map n/a
Scale of location map n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface n/a
Method altitude determined n/a
Altitude accuracy n/a
Altitude datum
n/a
Subbasin hydrologic unit
Saugatuck 01100006
Drainage basin
n/a
Topographic setting
n/a
Flags for instruments at site NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN n/a
Date of first construction
n/a
Date site established or inventoried n/a
Drainage area
40.60 square miles n/a
Contributing drainage area n/a
Time Zone abbreviation EST n/a
Site honors Daylight Saving Time
N n/a
Data reliability
n/a
Data-other GW files NNNNNNNN 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