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USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Information Water-quality 2017-04-20 2017-04-20
Inorganics, Major, Non-metals Water-quality 2017-04-20 2017-04-20
Physical Groundwater Levels, Water-quality 2013-08-30 2017-04-20
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 301603093153201 is associated with a Well in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana. Water data back to 2013 are available online.

Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
301603093153201 n/a
Site name
Cu-1533 n/a
Site type
Well
GW
DMS latitude 301602.8 n/a
DMS longitude 0931531.9 n/a
Decimal latitude 30.26744444 n/a
Decimal longitude -93.2588611 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. S
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
Calcasieu Parish 019
Country US n/a
Land net location description n/a
Name of location map BUHLER, LA n/a
Scale of location map 24000 n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface 15 feet n/a
Method altitude determined Interpolated from Digital Elevation Model N
Altitude accuracy 1.6 feet n/a
Altitude datum
North American Vertical Datum of 1988 NAVD88
Subbasin hydrologic unit
n/a
Drainage basin
n/a
Topographic setting
n/a
Flags for instruments at site NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN n/a
Date of first construction
20130830 n/a
Date site established or inventoried 20170420 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
Data have been checked by the reporting agency. C
Data-other GW files Y Y n/a
National aquifer Coastal lowlands aquifer system S100CSLLWD
Local aquifer 500-foot Sand of Lake Charles Area 11205LC
Local aquifer type
Confined single aquifer C
Well depth 580 feet n/a
Hole depth
592 feet n/a
Source of depth data D n/a
Project number n/a