Dark Canyon at Carlsbad, NM

Important information about this monitoring location

The elevation of this station has been determined to be 3089.75 feet above NAVD 1988. To obtain stream water-surface elevation values in NAVD 1988 add this value to gage height values.

Location details and information

Metadata Element	Location Metadata	Metadata Code
Agency	U.S. Geological Survey	USGS
Site identification number	08405150	_n/a
Site name	DARK CANYON AT CARLSBAD, NM	_n/a
Site type	Stream	ST
DMS latitude	322412	_n/a
DMS longitude	1041346	_n/a
Decimal latitude	32.40333333	_n/a
Decimal longitude	-104.2294444	_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	3089.75 feet	_n/a
Method altitude determined	GNSS2 - Level 2 Quality Survey Grade Global Navigation Satellite System	X
Altitude accuracy	.09 feet	_n/a
Altitude datum	North American Vertical Datum of 1988	NAVD88
Subbasin hydrologic unit	Upper Pecos-Black	13060011
Drainage basin		_n/a
Topographic setting		_n/a
Flags for instruments at site	YNNNYNYNNYNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN	_n/a
Date of first construction		_n/a
Date site established or inventoried		_n/a
Drainage area	451 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

Operated in cooperation with:

Pecos River Compact Commission

USGS - Cooperative Matching Funds