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USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Information Daily Values, Unit Values, Water-quality 1978-10-17 2024-11-21
Physical Daily Values, Unit Values, Water-quality 1972-11-13 2024-11-21
Sediment Water-quality 1978-10-17 1979-08-02
n/a USGS Annual Water Data Reports Site 2006-01-01 2021-01-01
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 06910997 is associated with a Lake, Reservoir, Impoundment in Osage County, Kansas. Current conditions of Lake or reservoir water surface elevation above NGVD 1929 and Reservoir storage are available. Water data back to 1972 are available online.

Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
06910997 n/a
Site name
MELVERN LK NR MELVERN, KS n/a
Site type
Lake, Reservoir, Impoundment
LK
DMS latitude 383034 n/a
DMS longitude 0954234 n/a
Decimal latitude 38.50945745 n/a
Decimal longitude -95.709708 n/a
Latitude-longitude method
Interpolated from MAP. M
Latitude-longitude accuracy
Accurate to + or - 1 min. M
Latitude-longitude datum
North American Datum of 1927 NAD27
Decimal Latitude-longitude datum North American Datum of 1983 NAD83
District
Kansas 20
State
Kansas 20
County
Osage County 139
Country US n/a
Land net location description SWNWNWS01 T18S R15E 6 n/a
Name of location map n/a
Scale of location map 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
10290101
Drainage basin
06 n/a
Topographic setting
n/a
Flags for instruments at site NYNNYNNNNNYNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN n/a
Date of first construction
n/a
Date site established or inventoried 197211 n/a
Drainage area
349 square miles n/a
Contributing drainage area 349 square miles n/a
Time Zone abbreviation CST n/a
Site honors Daylight Saving Time
Y 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 n/a

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