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  • New to WDFN: see current water conditions throughout the state using the new State Pages. Visit the Louisiana page for an example. Filter by continuous data type and age of data, view latest values, and link to graphing options to explore the data further. You can update the state name in the URL to visit your State Page or read our announcement on the Water Data for the Nation blog to find links to all the state and territory pages.
Important Inventory Page

USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Information Water-quality 1979-08-29 1981-10-21
Inorganics, Major, Metals Water-quality 1979-08-29 1981-10-21
Inorganics, Major, Non-metals Water-quality 1979-08-29 1981-10-21
Inorganics, Minor, Non-metals Water-quality 1979-08-29 1981-10-21
Inorganics, Minor, metals Water-quality 1979-08-29 1981-10-21
Microbiological Water-quality 1979-08-29 1981-10-21
Nutrient Water-quality 1979-08-29 1981-10-21
Organics, PCBs Water-quality 1979-08-29 1979-08-29
Organics, pesticide Water-quality 1979-08-29 1979-08-29
Physical Water-quality 1979-08-29 1981-10-21
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 463813086023001 is associated with a Lake, Reservoir, Impoundment in Alger County, Michigan. Water data back to 1979 are available online.

Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
463813086023001 n/a
Site name
GRAND SABLE L NR GRAND MARAIS MI n/a
Site type
Lake, Reservoir, Impoundment
LK
DMS latitude 463813 n/a
DMS longitude 0860230 n/a
Decimal latitude 46.63692016 n/a
Decimal longitude -86.0418313 n/a
Latitude-longitude method
Interpolated from MAP. M
Latitude-longitude accuracy
Accurate to + or - 1 min. M
Latitude-longitude datum
North American Datum of 1927 NAD27
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 S15 T49N R14W M n/a
Name of location map GRAND SABLE LAKE, MI n/a
Scale of location map 24000 n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface 742 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
Y n/a
Data reliability
n/a
Data-other GW files NNNNNNNN 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