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USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Information Daily Values 1965-10-01 2017-03-31
Physical Unit Values 2017-09-30 2024-11-21
n/a Site Visits 2011-10-03 2011-10-03
n/a USGS Annual Water Data Reports Site 2006-01-01 2017-01-01
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 08403800 is associated with a Lake, Reservoir, Impoundment in Eddy County, New Mexico. Current conditions of Gage height are available. Water data back to 1965 are available online.

Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
08403800 n/a
Site name
LAKE AVALON NR CARLSBAD N MEX n/a
Site type
Lake, Reservoir, Impoundment
LK
DMS latitude 322928.92 n/a
DMS longitude 1041508.45 n/a
Decimal latitude 32.49136667 n/a
Decimal longitude -104.2523472 n/a
Latitude-longitude method
Interpolated from MAP. M
Latitude-longitude accuracy
Unknown or unspecified. U
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 3157.0 feet n/a
Method altitude determined Reported method of determination. R
Altitude accuracy 0.1 feet n/a
Altitude datum
National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929 NGVD29
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
18070 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 YNNNNNNN 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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