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Important Legacy real-time page

USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Biological Water-quality 2003-03-12 2003-05-15
Information Water-quality 2002-02-11 2024-03-04
Nutrient Daily Values, Water-quality 2002-01-01 2024-02-02
Physical Daily Values, Unit Values, Water-quality 2001-12-27 2024-11-21
Sediment Daily Values, Water-quality 2002-01-01 2024-02-02
n/a Peak Measurements 2003-07-15 2023-02-28
n/a Site Visits 1994-05-26 2024-08-12
n/a USGS Annual Water Data Reports Site 2006-01-01 2023-01-01
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 05427850 is associated with a Stream in Dane County, Wisconsin. Current conditions of Discharge, Gage height, Mean water velocity for discharge computation, and more are available. Water data back to 1994 are available online.

Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
05427850 n/a
Site name
YAHARA RIVER AT STATE HIGHWAY 113 AT MADISON, WI n/a
Site type
Stream
ST
DMS latitude 430903 n/a
DMS longitude 0892407 n/a
Decimal latitude 43.1508333 n/a
Decimal longitude -89.4019444 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 1983 NAD83
Decimal Latitude-longitude datum North American Datum of 1983 NAD83
District
Wisconsin 55
State
Wisconsin 55
County
Dane County 025
Country US n/a
Land net location description SWSWS23 T8N R9E 4 n/a
Name of location map WAUNAKEE n/a
Scale of location map 24000 n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface 840.00 feet n/a
Method altitude determined GNSS4 - Level 4 Quality Survey Grade Global Navigation Satellite System Z
Altitude accuracy .06 feet n/a
Altitude datum
North American Vertical Datum of 1988 NAVD88
Subbasin hydrologic unit
07090001
Drainage basin
n/a
Topographic setting
Hillside
S
Flags for instruments at site NNNYNNNNNNNYNNYNYNNNNNNNNNNNNN n/a
Date of first construction
n/a
Date site established or inventoried n/a
Drainage area
114 square miles n/a
Contributing drainage area 77.4 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 24919KP41 n/a