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Important Inventory Page

USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Information Water-quality 2005-09-21 2005-09-21
Organics, PCBs Water-quality 2005-09-21 2005-09-21
Organics, other Water-quality 2005-09-21 2005-09-21
Organics, pesticide Water-quality 2005-09-21 2005-09-21
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 300202090071401 is associated with an Estuary in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana. Water data back to 2005 are available online.

Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
300202090071401 n/a
Site name
Lk Pontchartrain at 17th St Canal, Site PON.E4 n/a
Site type
Estuary
ES
DMS latitude 300201.6 n/a
DMS longitude 0900714.5 n/a
Decimal latitude 30.03377778 n/a
Decimal longitude -90.1206944 n/a
Latitude-longitude method
Mapping grade GPS unit (handheld accuracy range 12 to 40 ft) G
Latitude-longitude accuracy
Accurate to + or - .1 sec (Differentially-Corrected GPS). 1
Latitude-longitude datum
North American Datum of 1983 NAD83
Decimal Latitude-longitude datum North American Datum of 1983 NAD83
District
Louisiana 22
State
Louisiana 22
County
Jefferson Parish 051
Country US n/a
Land net location description n/a
Name of location map Spanish Fort, LA n/a
Scale of location map 24000 n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface 0 feet n/a
Method altitude determined Interpolated from topographic map. M
Altitude accuracy 5 feet n/a
Altitude datum
National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929 NGVD29
Subbasin hydrologic unit
08090202
Drainage basin
n/a
Topographic setting
Lake or Swamp
L
Flags for instruments at site NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN n/a
Date of first construction
n/a
Date site established or inventoried 20050921 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 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 8653-9BI01 n/a