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USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Information Water-quality 2003-07-12 2010-08-24
Physical Daily Values, Unit Values, Water-quality 1939-07-01 2024-11-15
n/a Peak Measurements 1988-09-30 2016-06-16
n/a Site Visits 1969-04-01 2024-08-30
n/a USGS Annual Water Data Reports Site 2006-01-01 2023-01-01
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 08403500 is associated with a Canal in Eddy County, New Mexico. Current conditions of Discharge and Gage height are available. Water data back to 1939 are available online.

The elevation of this station has been determined to be 3141.50 feet above NAVD 1988. To obtain stream water-surface elevation values in NAVD 1988 add this value to gage height values.
Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
08403500 n/a
Site name
CARLSBAD MAIN CANAL AT HEAD NEAR CARLSBAD, NM n/a
Site type
Canal
ST-CA
DMS latitude 322925.42 n/a
DMS longitude 1041509.82 n/a
Decimal latitude 32.49039444 n/a
Decimal longitude -104.2527278 n/a
Latitude-longitude method
Interpolated from MAP. M
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
New Mexico 35
State
New Mexico 35
County
Eddy County 015
Country US n/a
Land net location description n/a
Name of location map n/a
Scale of location map n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface 3141.50 feet n/a
Method altitude determined GNSS2 - Level 2 Quality Survey Grade Global Navigation Satellite System X
Altitude accuracy .07 feet n/a
Altitude datum
North American Vertical Datum of 1988 NAVD88
Subbasin hydrologic unit
13060011
Drainage basin
n/a
Topographic setting
n/a
Flags for instruments at site NNNNYNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN n/a
Date of first construction
n/a
Date site established or inventoried n/a
Drainage area
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

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