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Important Inventory Page

USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Biological Water-quality 2006-03-28 2006-08-08
Information Water-quality 2006-03-28 2006-08-08
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 415253085513003 is associated with a Lake, Reservoir, Impoundment in Cass County, Michigan. Water data back to 2006 are available online.

Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
415253085513003 n/a
Site name
BIRCH LAKE PHOTIC ZONE NEAR WILLIAMSVILLE, MI n/a
Site type
Lake, Reservoir, Impoundment
LK
DMS latitude 415253 n/a
DMS longitude 0855130 n/a
Decimal latitude 41.88143639 n/a
Decimal longitude -85.8583331 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 1927 NAD27
Decimal Latitude-longitude datum North American Datum of 1983 NAD83
District
Michigan 26
State
Michigan 26
County
Cass County 027
Country US n/a
Land net location description S07 T07S R13W M n/a
Name of location map JONES n/a
Scale of location map 24000 n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface 853 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
04050001
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 20010326 n/a
Drainage area
n/a
Contributing drainage area n/a
Time Zone abbreviation EST n/a
Site honors Daylight Saving Time
N 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 244500301 n/a