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USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Physical Daily Values, Unit Values 2018-04-20 2024-11-21
n/a Peak Measurements 2018-05-22 2023-04-01
n/a Site Visits 2016-07-25 2024-07-11
n/a USGS Annual Water Data Reports Site 2018-01-01 2023-01-01
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 05536085 is associated with a Stream in Cook County, Illinois. Current conditions of Discharge and Gage height are available. Water data back to 2016 are available online.

Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
05536085 n/a
Site name
NB CHICAGO RIVER AT N PULASKI ROAD AT CHICAGO, IL n/a
Site type
Stream
ST
DMS latitude 415829 n/a
DMS longitude 0874342 n/a
Decimal latitude 41.9747222 n/a
Decimal longitude -87.7283333 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
Cook County 031
Country US n/a
Land net location description NENESES10 T40N R13E n/a
Name of location map CHICAGO LOOP n/a
Scale of location map 24000 n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface 575.40 feet n/a
Method altitude determined GNSS2 - Level 2 Quality Survey Grade Global Navigation Satellite System X
Altitude accuracy .09 feet n/a
Altitude datum
North American Vertical Datum of 1988 NAVD88
Subbasin hydrologic unit
07120003
Drainage basin
n/a
Topographic setting
n/a
Flags for instruments at site NNNNYNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN n/a
Date of first construction
n/a
Date site established or inventoried 20180417 n/a
Drainage area
112.4 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 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 00100 n/a

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MWRD of Greater Chicago, Engineering Stormwater Management
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