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Important Inventory Page

USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Information Water-quality 2023-03-07 2023-03-07
Inorganics, Major, Non-metals Water-quality 2023-03-07 2023-03-07
Physical Water-quality 2023-03-07 2023-03-07
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 420305087523701 is associated with a Lake, Reservoir, Impoundment in Cook County, Illinois. Water data back to 2023 are available online.

Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
420305087523701 n/a
Site name
BIG BEND LAKE NEAR DES PLAINES, IL n/a
Site type
Lake, Reservoir, Impoundment
LK
DMS latitude 420304.71 n/a
DMS longitude 0875236.78 n/a
Decimal latitude 42.0513083 n/a
Decimal longitude -87.8768833 n/a
Latitude-longitude method
Reported. R
Latitude-longitude accuracy
Accurate to + or - 5 sec. F
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 S16 T41N R12E 3 n/a
Name of location map ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, I n/a
Scale of location map 24000 n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface 624 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
07120004
Drainage basin
n/a
Topographic setting
n/a
Flags for instruments at site 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 n/a