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Important Inventory Page

USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Information Water-quality 2010-06-11 2012-09-02
Microbiological Water-quality 2010-06-11 2012-09-01
Physical Water-quality 2010-06-11 2012-09-02
n/a USGS Annual Water Data Reports Site 2011-01-01 2011-01-01
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 420211087401001 is associated with a Lake, Reservoir, Impoundment in Cook County, Illinois. Water data back to 2010 are available online.

Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
420211087401001 n/a
Site name
LAKE MICHIGAN AT LEE BEACH AT EVANSTON, IL n/a
Site type
Lake, Reservoir, Impoundment
LK
DMS latitude 420211 n/a
DMS longitude 0874010 n/a
Decimal latitude 42.03638889 n/a
Decimal longitude -87.6694444 n/a
Latitude-longitude method
Interpolated from Digital MAP. N
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
Illinois 17
State
Illinois 17
County
Cook County 031
Country US n/a
Land net location description NWSWNWS20 T41N R14E n/a
Name of location map EVANSTON n/a
Scale of location map 24000 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
04060200
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
N 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 JR7700 n/a