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Important Inventory Page

USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Information Water-quality 1982-07-16 1982-07-16
Physical Daily Values, Water-quality 1979-06-29 1984-10-10
Sediment Daily Values 1982-06-14 1984-09-29
n/a Site Visits 1979-10-03 1984-08-28
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 04087010 is associated with a Stream in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin. Water data back to 1979 are available online.

Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
04087010 n/a
Site name
MILWAUKEE R ABOVE NORTH AVE DAM AT MILWAUKEE, WI n/a
Site type
Stream
ST
DMS latitude 430332 n/a
DMS longitude 0875341 n/a
Decimal latitude 43.0588947 n/a
Decimal longitude -87.8947482 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 1927 NAD27
Decimal Latitude-longitude datum North American Datum of 1983 NAD83
District
Wisconsin 55
State
Wisconsin 55
County
Milwaukee County 079
Country US n/a
Land net location description n/a
Name of location map Milwaukee n/a
Scale of location map 24000 n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface 600 feet n/a
Method altitude determined Interpolated from Digital Elevation Model N
Altitude accuracy 1 feet n/a
Altitude datum
North American Vertical Datum of 1988 NAVD88
Subbasin hydrologic unit
04040003
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
694 square miles n/a
Contributing drainage area n/a
Time Zone abbreviation CST n/a
Site honors Daylight Saving Time
N 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