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Important Legacy real-time page

USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Biological Water-quality 1988-07-28 1988-07-28
Information Water-quality 1977-11-16 1997-05-06
Inorganics, Major, Metals Water-quality 1980-10-22 1997-05-06
Inorganics, Major, Non-metals Water-quality 1977-11-16 1997-05-06
Inorganics, Minor, Non-metals Water-quality 1978-01-19 1997-05-06
Inorganics, Minor, metals Water-quality 1977-12-16 1997-05-06
Microbiological Water-quality 1977-11-16 1997-05-06
Nutrient Water-quality 1977-11-16 1997-05-06
Organics, other Water-quality 1977-11-16 1990-09-11
Physical Daily Values, Unit Values, Water-quality 1977-11-16 2010-09-29
Sediment Water-quality 1988-07-28 1988-07-28
n/a Peak Measurements 2010-07-25 2010-07-25
n/a Site Visits 1971-07-13 2015-03-09
n/a USGS Annual Water Data Reports Site 2010-01-01 2010-01-01
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 05534050 is associated with a Stream in Will County, Illinois. Water data back to 1971 are available online.

Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
05534050 n/a
Site name
DES PLAINES RIVER AT LOCKPORT, IL n/a
Site type
Stream
ST
DMS latitude 413547 n/a
DMS longitude 0880407 n/a
Decimal latitude 41.59638889 n/a
Decimal longitude -88.0686111 n/a
Latitude-longitude method
Interpolated from Digital MAP. N
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
Illinois 17
State
Illinois 17
County
Will County 197
Country US n/a
Land net location description NENENWS22 T36N R10E n/a
Name of location map JOLIET n/a
Scale of location map 24000 n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface 579.48 feet n/a
Method altitude determined Differentially corrected Global Positioning System. D
Altitude accuracy .01 feet n/a
Altitude datum
National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929 NGVD29
Subbasin hydrologic unit
07120004
Drainage basin
n/a
Topographic setting
n/a
Flags for instruments at site NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN n/a
Date of first construction
20100308 n/a
Date site established or inventoried 20100308 n/a
Drainage area
700.00 square miles n/a
Contributing drainage area n/a
Time Zone abbreviation CST n/a
Site honors Daylight Saving Time
N 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 E5N00 n/a