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Important Legacy real-time page

USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Information Water-quality 2002-07-22 2007-03-22
Physical Daily Values, Unit Values 2002-05-03 2007-08-14
Sediment Daily Values, Water-quality 2002-06-15 2007-03-31
n/a Peak Measurements 1962-03-19 2006-03-13
n/a Site Visits 1962-03-20 2012-06-28
n/a USGS Annual Water Data Reports Site 2006-01-01 2012-01-01
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 05551030 is associated with a Stream in Kane County, Illinois. Water data back to 1962 are available online.

Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
05551030 n/a
Site name
BREWSTER CREEK AT VALLEY VIEW, IL n/a
Site type
Stream
ST
DMS latitude 415819 n/a
DMS longitude 0881647 n/a
Decimal latitude 41.97194444 n/a
Decimal longitude -88.2797222 n/a
Latitude-longitude method
Mapping grade GPS unit (handheld accuracy range 12 to 40 ft) G
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
Kane County 089
Country US n/a
Land net location description SWSWS12 T40N R8E n/a
Name of location map GENEVA n/a
Scale of location map 24000 n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface 700.00 feet n/a
Method altitude determined U n/a
Altitude accuracy .01 feet n/a
Altitude datum
North American Vertical Datum of 1988 NAVD88
Subbasin hydrologic unit
07120007
Drainage basin
n/a
Topographic setting
n/a
Flags for instruments at site NNYNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN n/a
Date of first construction
n/a
Date site established or inventoried 20070815 n/a
Drainage area
14.0 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 00100 n/a