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Important Legacy real-time page

USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Inorganics, Major, Metals Water-quality 1969-08-28 1972-06-26
Inorganics, Major, Non-metals Water-quality 1965-10-11 1975-09-29
Inorganics, Minor, Non-metals Water-quality 1970-11-30 1973-08-30
Inorganics, Minor, metals Water-quality 1969-08-28 1975-09-29
Microbiological Water-quality 1971-07-14 1973-08-30
Nutrient Water-quality 1969-08-28 1973-08-30
Physical Daily Values, Unit Values, Water-quality 1965-03-09 2024-11-21
n/a Peak Measurements 1886-04-06 2023-02-18
n/a Site Visits 1922-09-08 1990-02-18
n/a USGS Annual Water Data Reports Site 2006-01-01 2023-01-01
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 02400500 is associated with a Stream in Etowah County, Alabama. Current conditions of Gage height are available. Water data back to 1886 are available online.

Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
02400500 n/a
Site name
COOSA RIVER AT GADSDEN AL n/a
Site type
Stream
ST
DMS latitude 340037 n/a
DMS longitude 0855952 n/a
Decimal latitude 34.0103752 n/a
Decimal longitude -85.9977494 n/a
Latitude-longitude method
Interpolated from MAP. M
Latitude-longitude accuracy
Unknown or unspecified. U
Latitude-longitude datum
North American Datum of 1927 NAD27
Decimal Latitude-longitude datum North American Datum of 1983 NAD83
District
Alabama 01
State
Alabama 01
County
Etowah County 055
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 486.06 feet n/a
Method altitude determined GNSS1 - Level 1 Quality Survey Grade Global Navigation Satellite System W
Altitude accuracy .22 feet n/a
Altitude datum
North American Vertical Datum of 1988 NAVD88
Subbasin hydrologic unit
03150106
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
5805.00 square miles n/a
Contributing drainage area 5805.00 square miles n/a
Time Zone abbreviation CST 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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