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Important Inventory Page

USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Physical Daily Values 1946-08-15 2002-09-30
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 05517600 is associated with a Lake, Reservoir, Impoundment in Porter County, Indiana. Water data back to 1946 are available online.

Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
05517600 n/a
Site name
WAUHOB LAKE NR VALPARAISO, IN n/a
Site type
Lake, Reservoir, Impoundment
LK
DMS latitude 413202 n/a
DMS longitude 0870242 n/a
Decimal latitude 41.53392804 n/a
Decimal longitude -87.0450308 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
Indiana 18
State
Indiana 18
County
Porter County 127
Country US n/a
Land net location description n/a
Name of location map CHESTERTON 16D n/a
Scale of location map 24000 n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface 790.00 feet n/a
Method altitude determined Interpolated from topographic map. M
Altitude accuracy .01 feet n/a
Altitude datum
National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929 NGVD29
Subbasin hydrologic unit
07120001
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
0.28 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 441800100 n/a