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Important Inventory Page

USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Information Water-quality 2004-09-27 2006-01-18
Inorganics, Major, Non-metals Water-quality 2006-01-18 2006-01-18
Inorganics, Minor, metals Water-quality 2004-09-27 2006-01-18
Organics, other Water-quality 2004-09-27 2006-01-18
Sediment Water-quality 2004-09-27 2006-01-18
n/a USGS Annual Water Data Reports Site 2006-01-01 2006-01-01
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 463811111420001 is associated with a Lake, Reservoir, Impoundment in Lewis and Clark County, Montana. Water data back to 2004 are available online.

Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
463811111420001 n/a
Site name
Lower Canyon Ferry Lake near Townsend, MT n/a
Site type
Lake, Reservoir, Impoundment
LK
DMS latitude 463811 n/a
DMS longitude 1114200 n/a
Decimal latitude 46.6363252 n/a
Decimal longitude -111.7008118 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 1927 NAD27
Decimal Latitude-longitude datum North American Datum of 1983 NAD83
District
Montana 30
State
Montana 30
County
Lewis and Clark County 049
Country US n/a
Land net location description SENWSWS11 T10N R01W P n/a
Name of location map CANYON FERRY n/a
Scale of location map n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface 3797 feet n/a
Method altitude determined Interpolated from topographic map. M
Altitude accuracy 20 feet n/a
Altitude datum
National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929 NGVD29
Subbasin hydrologic unit
10030101
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 MST n/a
Site honors Daylight Saving Time
Y n/a
Data reliability
n/a
Data-other GW files Y 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