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Important Legacy real-time page

USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Biological Water-quality 2017-11-27 2020-03-02
Information Water-quality 2017-11-27 2020-03-02
Inorganics, Major, Non-metals Daily Values, Unit Values, Water-quality 2017-11-02 2024-11-21
Physical Daily Values, Unit Values, Water-quality 2017-11-02 2024-11-21
n/a Peak Measurements 2018-09-05 2022-11-15
n/a USGS Annual Water Data Reports Site 2018-01-01 2023-01-01
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 07380260 is associated with an Estuary in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana. Current conditions of Chlorophyll fluorescence (fChl), Dissolved oxygen, Gage height, and more are available. Water data back to 2017 are available online.

Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
07380260 n/a
Site name
Empire Waterway south of Empire, LA n/a
Site type
Estuary
ES
DMS latitude 291816.3 n/a
DMS longitude 0893549.2 n/a
Decimal latitude 29.30452778 n/a
Decimal longitude -89.597 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
Louisiana 22
State
Louisiana 22
County
Plaquemines Parish 075
Country US n/a
Land net location description n/a
Name of location map BURAS, LA n/a
Scale of location map 24000 n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface -4.50 feet n/a
Method altitude determined GNSS1 - Level 1 Quality Survey Grade Global Navigation Satellite System W
Altitude accuracy .01 feet n/a
Altitude datum
North American Vertical Datum of 1988 NAVD88
Subbasin hydrologic unit
08090301
Drainage basin
n/a
Topographic setting
Stream channel
C
Flags for instruments at site YNNNYNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN n/a
Date of first construction
n/a
Date site established or inventoried 20171102 n/a
Drainage area
n/a
Contributing drainage area n/a
Time Zone abbreviation CST n/a
Site honors Daylight Saving Time
Y n/a
Data reliability
Data have been checked by the reporting agency. C
Data-other GW files Y 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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