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Important Legacy real-time page

USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Information Water-quality 1957-04-17 1957-04-17
Inorganics, Major, Metals Water-quality 1957-04-17 1957-04-17
Inorganics, Major, Non-metals Water-quality 1957-04-17 1973-06-14
Inorganics, Minor, metals Water-quality 1957-04-17 1957-04-17
Microbiological Water-quality 1972-08-24 1973-06-14
Nutrient Water-quality 1957-04-17 1957-04-17
Physical Daily Values, Unit Values, Water-quality 1940-07-01 2024-11-21
n/a Peak Measurements 1940-08-14 2023-04-29
n/a Site Visits 1940-06-17 2024-06-25
n/a USGS Annual Water Data Reports Site 2006-01-01 2013-01-01
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 02160000 is associated with a Stream in Union County, South Carolina. Current conditions of Discharge, Gage height, and Stream water level elevation above NAVD 1988 are available. Water data back to 1940 are available online.

Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
02160000 n/a
Site name
FAIRFOREST CREEK NEAR UNION, SC n/a
Site type
Stream
ST
DMS latitude 344054.6 n/a
DMS longitude 0814110.9 n/a
Decimal latitude 34.6818333 n/a
Decimal longitude -81.6863611 n/a
Latitude-longitude method
Interpolated from Digital MAP. N
Latitude-longitude accuracy
Unknown or unspecified. U
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
Union County 087
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 389.37 feet n/a
Method altitude determined GNSS2 - Level 2 Quality Survey Grade Global Navigation Satellite System X
Altitude accuracy .06 feet n/a
Altitude datum
North American Vertical Datum of 1988 NAVD88
Subbasin hydrologic unit
Tyger 03050107
Drainage basin
n/a
Topographic setting
n/a
Flags for instruments at site YNNNYNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN n/a
Date of first construction
n/a
Date site established or inventoried n/a
Drainage area
187 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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