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Important Legacy real-time page

USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Information Water-quality 1974-12-12 1984-11-09
Inorganics, Major, Metals Water-quality 1950-09-26 1984-11-09
Inorganics, Major, Non-metals Water-quality 1950-09-26 1984-11-09
Inorganics, Minor, Non-metals Water-quality 1970-05-05 1971-09-27
Inorganics, Minor, metals Water-quality 1953-10-09 1984-11-09
Nutrient Water-quality 1950-09-26 1983-05-10
Organics, other Water-quality 1971-09-27 1971-09-27
Physical Daily Values, Unit Values, Water-quality 1950-09-26 2024-11-21
n/a Site Visits 1957-06-19 2024-10-23
n/a USGS Annual Water Data Reports Site 2006-01-01 2023-01-01
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 02280500 is associated with a Canal in Palm Beach County, Florida. Current conditions of Discharge, Gage height, and Mean water velocity for discharge computation are available. Water data back to 1950 are available online.

Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
02280500 n/a
Site name
HILLSBORO CANAL BELOW S351 NR SOUTH BAY FLA n/a
Site type
Canal
ST-CA
DMS latitude 264200.77 n/a
DMS longitude 0804232.65 n/a
Decimal latitude 26.70021389 n/a
Decimal longitude -80.7090694 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 1983 NAD83
Decimal Latitude-longitude datum North American Datum of 1983 NAD83
District
122 n/a
State
Florida 12
County
Palm Beach County 099
Country US n/a
Land net location description SWS35 T43S R36E T 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
03090202
Drainage basin
20 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
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 2080-00100 n/a