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Important Inventory Page

USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Biological Water-quality 1988-07-27 2015-08-11
Information Water-quality 1988-07-27 2015-08-11
Inorganics, Major, Metals Water-quality 2015-08-11 2015-08-11
Inorganics, Major, Non-metals Water-quality 1988-07-27 2015-08-11
Inorganics, Minor, Non-metals Water-quality 2015-08-11 2015-08-11
Inorganics, Minor, metals Water-quality 2015-08-11 2015-08-11
Microbiological Water-quality 1988-07-27 1988-07-27
Nutrient Water-quality 1988-07-27 2015-08-11
Organics, other Water-quality 1988-07-27 2015-08-11
Physical Water-quality 1988-07-27 2015-08-11
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 05538008 is associated with a Stream in Will County, Illinois. Water data back to 1988 are available online.

Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
05538008 n/a
Site name
DES PLAINES RIVER AB BRANDON RD DM AT JOLIET, IL n/a
Site type
Stream
ST
DMS latitude 413024 n/a
DMS longitude 0880549 n/a
Decimal latitude 41.5066976 n/a
Decimal longitude -88.097003 n/a
Latitude-longitude method
Interpolated from MAP. M
Latitude-longitude accuracy
Unknown or unspecified. U
Latitude-longitude datum
North American Datum of 1927 NAD27
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 SENWNWS21 T35N R10E n/a
Name of location map JOLIET 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
07120004
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 19890310 n/a
Drainage area
1506 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 07500 n/a