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Lake Pontchartrain @ Byu St. John @ New Orleans - 300142090045800

Important Inventory Page

USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Biological Water-quality 1996-05-30 2005-09-26
Information Water-quality 1996-05-30 2005-09-26
Inorganics, Major, Metals Water-quality 1996-05-30 2005-09-26
Inorganics, Major, Non-metals Water-quality 1996-05-30 2005-09-26
Inorganics, Minor, Non-metals Water-quality 2005-09-26 2005-09-26
Inorganics, Minor, metals Water-quality 2005-09-26 2005-09-26
Nutrient Water-quality 1996-05-30 2005-09-26
Organics, PCBs Water-quality 2005-09-26 2005-09-26
Organics, other Water-quality 2005-09-26 2005-09-26
Organics, pesticide Water-quality 2005-09-26 2005-09-26
Physical Water-quality 1996-05-30 2005-09-26
Radiochemistry Water-quality 2005-09-26 2005-09-26
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 300142090045800 is associated with a Lake, Reservoir, Impoundment in Orleans Parish, Louisiana. Water data back to 1996 are available online.

Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
300142090045800 n/a
Site name
Lake Pontchartrain @ Byu St. John @ New Orleans n/a
Site type
Lake, Reservoir, Impoundment
LK
DMS latitude 300142 n/a
DMS longitude 0900458 n/a
Decimal latitude 30.02853527 n/a
Decimal longitude -90.0828502 n/a
Latitude-longitude method
Interpolated from MAP. M
Latitude-longitude accuracy
Unknown or unspecified. U
Latitude-longitude datum
North American Datum of 1927 NAD27
Decimal Latitude-longitude datum North American Datum of 1983 NAD83
District
Louisiana 22
State
Louisiana 22
County
Orleans Parish 071
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 n/a
Method altitude determined n/a
Altitude accuracy n/a
Altitude datum
n/a
Subbasin hydrologic unit
08090202
Drainage basin
n/a
Topographic setting
n/a
Flags for instruments at site NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN 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 CST 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 462200308 n/a