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USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Physical Unit Values 2017-10-01 2024-12-28
n/a Peak Measurements 1988-01-21 2023-02-18
n/a Site Visits 1987-08-10 2024-10-22
n/a USGS Annual Water Data Reports Site 2006-01-01 2012-01-01
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 02024750 is associated with a Stream in Amherst County, Virginia. Current conditions of Gage height are available. Water data back to 1987 are available online.

Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
02024750 n/a
Site name
JAMES RIVER AT BEDFORD DAM NR MAJOR, VA n/a
Site type
Stream
ST
DMS latitude 373446.9 n/a
DMS longitude 0792235.9 n/a
Decimal latitude 37.57983127 n/a
Decimal longitude -79.3763942 n/a
Latitude-longitude method
Interpolated from Digital MAP. N
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
Virginia 51
State
Virginia 51
County
Amherst County 009
Country US n/a
Land net location description n/a
Name of location map SNOWDEN n/a
Scale of location map 24000 n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface 621.28 feet n/a
Method altitude determined GNSS3 - Level 3 Quality Survey Grade Global Navigation Satellite System Y
Altitude accuracy .13 feet n/a
Altitude datum
North American Vertical Datum of 1988 NAVD88
Subbasin hydrologic unit
Middle James-Buffalo 02080203
Drainage basin
n/a
Topographic setting
n/a
Flags for instruments at site NNNNYNNNNYNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN n/a
Date of first construction
n/a
Date site established or inventoried 19901213 n/a
Drainage area
3070 square miles 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 n/a

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