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Important Inventory Page

USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Biological Water-quality 1980-02-06 1980-08-22
Information Water-quality 1976-01-13 1981-08-27
Inorganics, Major, Metals Water-quality 1976-10-29 1981-08-27
Inorganics, Major, Non-metals Water-quality 1976-01-13 1981-08-27
Inorganics, Minor, Non-metals Water-quality 1978-01-10 1981-07-17
Inorganics, Minor, metals Water-quality 1976-01-13 1981-08-27
Nutrient Water-quality 1976-10-29 1981-08-27
Organics, PCBs Water-quality 1980-02-06 1981-07-17
Organics, other Water-quality 1977-01-13 1981-07-17
Physical Water-quality 1976-01-13 1981-08-27
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 06712990 is associated with a Lake, Reservoir, Impoundment in Arapahoe County, Colorado. Water data back to 1976 are available online.

Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
06712990 n/a
Site name
CHERRY CREEK LAKE NEAR DENVER, CO. n/a
Site type
Lake, Reservoir, Impoundment
LK
DMS latitude 393903 n/a
DMS longitude 1045113 n/a
Decimal latitude 39.65082126 n/a
Decimal longitude -104.8541434 n/a
Latitude-longitude method
Interpolated from MAP. M
Latitude-longitude accuracy
Accurate to + or - 5 sec. F
Latitude-longitude datum
North American Datum of 1927 NAD27
Decimal Latitude-longitude datum North American Datum of 1983 NAD83
District
Colorado 08
State
Colorado 08
County
Arapahoe County 005
Country US n/a
Land net location description n/a
Name of location map FITZSIMONS 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
10190003
Drainage basin
06 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
385 square miles n/a
Contributing drainage area n/a
Time Zone abbreviation MST n/a
Site honors Daylight Saving Time
Y 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 n/a