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Important Inventory Page

USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Information Water-quality 2008-03-26 2008-03-26
Inorganics, Major, Non-metals Water-quality 2008-03-26 2008-03-26
Physical Water-quality 2008-03-26 2008-03-26
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 460945090035700 is associated with a Lake, Reservoir, Impoundment in Iron County, Wisconsin. Water data back to 2008 are available online.

Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
460945090035700 n/a
Site name
MERCER LAKE AT SITE D NEAR MERCER, WI n/a
Site type
Lake, Reservoir, Impoundment
LK
DMS latitude 460945 n/a
DMS longitude 0900357 n/a
Decimal latitude 46.1625 n/a
Decimal longitude -90.0658333 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 1983 NAD83
Decimal Latitude-longitude datum North American Datum of 1983 NAD83
District
Wisconsin 55
State
Wisconsin 55
County
Iron County 051
Country US n/a
Land net location description SESENWS36 T43N R3E 4 n/a
Name of location map MERCER n/a
Scale of location map 24000 n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface 1582 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
07050002
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 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
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 24919KB42 n/a