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Important Inventory Page

USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Biological Water-quality 2018-06-12 2018-06-12
Inorganics, Minor, metals Water-quality 2018-06-12 2018-06-12
Organics, PCBs Water-quality 2018-06-12 2018-06-12
Organics, other Water-quality 2018-06-12 2018-06-12
Organics, pesticide Water-quality 2018-06-12 2018-06-12
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 0421829403 is associated with a Stream in Erie County, New York. Water data back to 2018 are available online.

Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
0421829403 n/a
Site name
TONAWANDA CREEK ABOVE ELLICOTT CR AT TONAWANDA NY n/a
Site type
Stream
ST
DMS latitude 430117 n/a
DMS longitude 0785236 n/a
Decimal latitude 43.0214458 n/a
Decimal longitude -78.8764259 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
New York 36
State
New York 36
County
Erie County 029
Country US n/a
Land net location description n/a
Name of location map TONAWANDA WEST, NY n/a
Scale of location map 24000 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
04120104
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
496 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 Y 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 GAZETTEER n/a