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  • New to WDFN: see current water conditions throughout the state using the new State Pages. Filter by continuous data type and age of data, view latest values, and link to graphing options to explore the data further. To learn more, read our announcement on the Water Data for the Nation blog.

Water Temperature will be removed Jan. 1, 2025, due to loss of funding. Contact Matt Komiskey (mjkomisk@usgs.gov) if interested in becoming a new funding cooperator.

Important Legacy real-time page

USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Biological Water-quality 1979-03-05 2012-11-05
Information Water-quality 1979-02-12 2024-02-20
Inorganics, Major, Metals Water-quality 1979-02-12 2014-08-12
Inorganics, Major, Non-metals Daily Values, Unit Values, Water-quality 1979-02-12 2024-10-02
Inorganics, Minor, Non-metals Water-quality 1979-04-02 1995-09-22
Inorganics, Minor, metals Water-quality 1979-04-02 1995-09-22
Microbiological Water-quality 1979-02-12 2011-08-24
Nutrient Water-quality 1979-02-12 2023-07-20
Organics, other Water-quality 1979-02-12 2017-06-27
Organics, pesticide Water-quality 2001-07-11 2017-06-27
Physical Daily Values, Unit Values, Water-quality 1930-10-01 2024-11-07
Population/Community Water-quality 1979-03-05 1981-09-30
Radiochemistry Water-quality 1981-01-14 1981-07-29
Sediment Water-quality 1979-02-12 2023-07-20
n/a Peak Measurements 1931-03-30 2023-03-06
n/a Site Visits 1930-10-16 2024-07-16
n/a USGS Annual Water Data Reports Site 2006-01-01 2023-01-01
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 04101500 is associated with a Stream in Berrien County, Michigan. Current conditions of Discharge, Gage height, Stream water level elevation above NAVD 1988, and more are available. Water data back to 1930 are available online.

Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
04101500 n/a
Site name
ST. JOSEPH RIVER AT NILES, MI n/a
Site type
Stream
ST
DMS latitude 414945 n/a
DMS longitude 0861535 n/a
Decimal latitude 41.8292138 n/a
Decimal longitude -86.2597325 n/a
Latitude-longitude method
Interpolated from MAP. M
Latitude-longitude accuracy
Accurate to + or - 1 min. M
Latitude-longitude datum
North American Datum of 1927 NAD27
Decimal Latitude-longitude datum North American Datum of 1983 NAD83
District
Michigan 26
State
Michigan 26
County
Berrien County 021
Country US n/a
Land net location description SWS26 T07S R17W M n/a
Name of location map NILES WEST n/a
Scale of location map 24000 n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface 632.57 feet n/a
Method altitude determined Level or other surveyed method. L
Altitude accuracy .01 feet n/a
Altitude datum
North American Vertical Datum of 1988 NAVD88
Subbasin hydrologic unit
04050001
Drainage basin
n/a
Topographic setting
n/a
Flags for instruments at site YNNNYNNNNNYNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN n/a
Date of first construction
n/a
Date site established or inventoried 19790212 n/a
Drainage area
3666 square miles n/a
Contributing drainage area n/a
Time Zone abbreviation EST n/a
Site honors Daylight Saving Time
N n/a
Data reliability
n/a
Data-other GW files YYNNNNNN 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 442600100 n/a

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