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USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Information Unit Values 2019-10-01 2024-11-08
Physical Daily Values, Unit Values 1997-10-02 2024-11-08
n/a Peak Measurements 2021-03-26 2021-03-26
n/a USGS Annual Water Data Reports Site 2006-01-01 2023-01-01
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 02153051 is associated with a Lake, Reservoir, Impoundment in Cherokee County, South Carolina. Current conditions of Elevation above NAVD 1988 and Elevation of reservoir water surface above datum are available. Water data back to 1997 are available online.

Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
02153051 n/a
Site name
GASTON SHOALS RESERVOIR ABOVE BLACKSBURG, SC n/a
Site type
Lake, Reservoir, Impoundment
LK
DMS latitude 350816.55 n/a
DMS longitude 0813552.46 n/a
Decimal latitude 35.13793056 n/a
Decimal longitude -81.5979056 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 1983 NAD83
Decimal Latitude-longitude datum North American Datum of 1983 NAD83
District
South Carolina 45
State
South Carolina 45
County
Cherokee County 021
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 504.71 feet n/a
Method altitude determined GNSS2 - Level 2 Quality Survey Grade Global Navigation Satellite System X
Altitude accuracy .01 feet n/a
Altitude datum
North American Vertical Datum of 1988 NAVD88
Subbasin hydrologic unit
Upper Broad 03050105
Drainage basin
n/a
Topographic setting
n/a
Flags for instruments at site NNNNYNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN n/a
Date of first construction
n/a
Date site established or inventoried n/a
Drainage area
1280 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 YNNNNNNN 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 454500100 n/a

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