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Important Inventory Page

USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Inorganics, Major, Non-metals Water-quality 2013-06-10 2013-08-26
Organics, other Water-quality 2012-06-15 2013-08-26
Physical Water-quality 2013-06-10 2013-08-26
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 462846086321301 is associated with a Lake, Reservoir, Impoundment in Alger County, Michigan. Water data back to 2012 are available online.

Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
462846086321301 n/a
Site name
MINERS LAKE NEAR SW SHORE AT PICTURED ROCKS, MI n/a
Site type
Lake, Reservoir, Impoundment
LK
DMS latitude 462846.41 n/a
DMS longitude 0863213.58 n/a
Decimal latitude 46.4795583 n/a
Decimal longitude -86.5371056 n/a
Latitude-longitude method
Mapping grade GPS unit (handheld accuracy range 12 to 40 ft) G
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
Michigan 26
State
Michigan 26
County
Alger County 003
Country US n/a
Land net location description SESES10 T47N R18W M n/a
Name of location map INDIAN TOWN, MI n/a
Scale of location map 24000 n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface 621 feet n/a
Method altitude determined Interpolated from Digital Elevation Model N
Altitude accuracy 4.3 feet n/a
Altitude datum
North American Vertical Datum of 1988 NAVD88
Subbasin hydrologic unit
04020201
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 EST 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 NPSALGAL n/a