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Important Inventory Page

USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Information Water-quality 1987-01-30 1987-01-30
Inorganics, Major, Metals Water-quality 1987-01-30 1987-01-30
Inorganics, Major, Non-metals Water-quality 1987-01-30 1987-01-30
Inorganics, Minor, Non-metals Water-quality 1987-01-30 1987-01-30
Inorganics, Minor, metals Water-quality 1987-01-30 1987-01-30
Nutrient Water-quality 1987-01-30 1987-01-30
Organics, other Water-quality 1987-01-30 1987-01-30
Organics, pesticide Water-quality 1987-01-30 1987-01-30
Physical Groundwater Levels, Water-quality 1977-04-19 1987-01-30
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 420201088201001 is associated with a Well in Kane County, Illinois. Water data back to 1977 are available online.

Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
420201088201001 n/a
Site name
41N 8E-16.7c1 n/a
Site type
Well
GW
DMS latitude 420201 n/a
DMS longitude 0882010 n/a
Decimal latitude 42.0336375 n/a
Decimal longitude -88.3361908 n/a
Latitude-longitude method
Interpolated from MAP. M
Latitude-longitude accuracy
Accurate to + or - 5 sec. F
Latitude-longitude datum
North American Datum of 1927 NAD27
Decimal Latitude-longitude datum North American Datum of 1983 NAD83
District
Illinois 17
State
Illinois 17
County
Kane County 089
Country US n/a
Land net location description SENWSWS16 T 41N R 8E 3 n/a
Name of location map ELGIN n/a
Scale of location map 24000 n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface 820.00 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
07120007
Drainage basin
n/a
Topographic setting
Undulating
U
Flags for instruments at site NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN n/a
Date of first construction
197702 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
N n/a
Data reliability
Data have been checked by the reporting agency. C
Data-other GW files YYYNNNNN n/a
National aquifer Cambrian-Ordovician aquifer system S300CAMORD
Local aquifer Ordovician-Cambrian Systems 367OVCB
Local aquifer type
n/a
Well depth 1310 feet n/a
Hole depth
1310 feet n/a
Source of depth data A n/a
Project number 441706200 n/a