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Important Inventory Page

USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Biological Water-quality 1991-07-10 2010-08-10
Information Water-quality 1988-12-14 2011-06-22
Inorganics, Major, Metals Water-quality 1991-07-10 2011-06-22
Inorganics, Major, Non-metals Water-quality 1988-12-14 2011-06-22
Inorganics, Minor, Non-metals Water-quality 1991-07-10 2011-04-12
Inorganics, Minor, metals Water-quality 1991-07-10 2011-06-22
Nutrient Water-quality 1991-07-10 2011-06-22
Organics, PCBs Water-quality 1988-12-14 1992-05-19
Organics, other Water-quality 1988-12-14 2011-06-22
Organics, pesticide Water-quality 1988-12-14 1992-05-19
Physical Water-quality 1988-12-14 2011-06-22
Sediment Water-quality 1990-05-16 2009-04-14
n/a USGS Annual Water Data Reports Site 2006-01-01 2011-01-01
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 0208703650 is associated with a Lake, Reservoir, Impoundment in Wake County, North Carolina. Water data back to 1988 are available online.

Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
0208703650 n/a
Site name
FALLS LAKE AT STATE HWY 50 NR SANDY PLAIN, NC n/a
Site type
Lake, Reservoir, Impoundment
LK
DMS latitude 360055 n/a
DMS longitude 0784128 n/a
Decimal latitude 36.01527778 n/a
Decimal longitude -78.6911111 n/a
Latitude-longitude method
Reported. R
Latitude-longitude accuracy
Accurate to + or - 1 sec. S
Latitude-longitude datum
North American Datum of 1983 NAD83
Decimal Latitude-longitude datum North American Datum of 1983 NAD83
District
North Carolina 37
State
North Carolina 37
County
Wake County 183
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
Upper Neuse 03020201
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
620 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 NYNNNNNN 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