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Important Inventory Page

USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Biological Water-quality 1980-07-30 1980-08-13
Information Water-quality 1979-08-02 1983-08-31
Inorganics, Major, Non-metals Water-quality 1980-07-21 1983-08-31
Microbiological Water-quality 1979-08-02 1981-09-22
Nutrient Water-quality 1980-07-21 1983-08-09
Organics, other Water-quality 1980-07-30 1980-09-17
Physical Water-quality 1983-08-31 1983-08-31
Population/Community Water-quality 1979-08-02 1981-09-22
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 01658710 is associated with an Estuary in Prince William County, Virginia. Water data back to 1979 are available online.

Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
01658710 n/a
Site name
POTOMAC RIVER AT QUANTICO, VA n/a
Site type
Estuary
ES
DMS latitude 383112 n/a
DMS longitude 0771708 n/a
Decimal latitude 38.5201212 n/a
Decimal longitude -77.285259 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
Maryland 24
State
Virginia 51
County
Prince William County 153
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
Lower Potomac 02070011
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
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 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 442400300 n/a