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Important Legacy real-time page

USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Inorganics, Major, Non-metals Water-quality 1967-04-03 1968-04-23
Nutrient Water-quality 1967-04-03 1967-04-03
Physical Daily Values, Unit Values, Water-quality 1947-06-01 2016-09-29
n/a Peak Measurements 1948-05-11 2016-03-25
n/a Site Visits 1950-10-10 2016-10-11
n/a USGS Annual Water Data Reports Site 2006-01-01 2016-01-01
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 04168000 is associated with a Stream in Wayne County, Michigan. Water data back to 1947 are available online.

Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
04168000 n/a
Site name
LOWER RIVER ROUGE AT INKSTER, MI n/a
Site type
Stream
ST
DMS latitude 421802 n/a
DMS longitude 0831801 n/a
Decimal latitude 42.30059329 n/a
Decimal longitude -83.3002078 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
Wayne County 163
Country US n/a
Land net location description SWSES19 T02S R10E M n/a
Name of location map INKSTER n/a
Scale of location map 24000 n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface 592.23 feet n/a
Method altitude determined Reported method of determination. R
Altitude accuracy .01 feet n/a
Altitude datum
North American Vertical Datum of 1988 NAVD88
Subbasin hydrologic unit
04090004
Drainage basin
n/a
Topographic setting
n/a
Flags for instruments at site YNYNNNNNNYYNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN n/a
Date of first construction
n/a
Date site established or inventoried n/a
Drainage area
83.2 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 NYNNNNNN 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