Uncompahgre River Below Ridgway Reservoir, CO

Important information about this monitoring location

The elevation of this station has been determined to be 6,645.24 feet above NAVD 1988. To obtain stream water-surface elevation values in NAVD 1988 add 6,645.24 feet to gage height values.

Location details and information

Metadata Element	Location Metadata	Metadata Code
Agency	U.S. Geological Survey	USGS
Site identification number	09147025	_n/a
Site name	UNCOMPAHGRE RIVER BELOW RIDGWAY RESERVOIR, CO	_n/a
Site type	Stream	ST
DMS latitude	381426.0	_n/a
DMS longitude	1074537.1	_n/a
Decimal latitude	38.24055556	_n/a
Decimal longitude	-107.7603056	_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	Colorado	08
State	Colorado	08
County	Ouray County	091
Country	US	_n/a
Land net location description	NESES17 T046N R008W	_n/a
Name of location map	RIDGWAY, CO	_n/a
Scale of location map	24000	_n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface	6645.24 feet	_n/a
Method altitude determined	GNSS2 - Level 2 Quality Survey Grade Global Navigation Satellite System	X
Altitude accuracy	.13 feet	_n/a
Altitude datum	North American Vertical Datum of 1988	NAVD88
Subbasin hydrologic unit	Uncompahgre	14020006
Drainage basin	09	_n/a
Topographic setting		_n/a
Flags for instruments at site	NNNNYNNNNNNNNYNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN	_n/a
Date of first construction		_n/a
Date site established or inventoried		_n/a
Drainage area	265 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	NYNNNNNN	_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	460800110	_n/a

Operated in cooperation with:

US Bureau of Reclamation (USBR) - Upper Colorado Region