USGS Water-Quality Data for North Dakota
(28 sites)
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Current conditions at selected sites based on the most recent data from on-site automated recording equipment. Measurements are commonly recorded at a fixed interval of 15- to 60-minutes and transmitted to the USGS every hour. Values may include "Approved" (quality-assured data that may be published) and/or more recent "Provisional" data (of unverified accuracy and subject to revision). Most current data are provisional. |
(28 sites)
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The same data accessed by the Current Conditions link above but including both active and discontinued sites with data for any part of the period October 1, 2007, through the present. Values may include "Approved" (quality-assured data that may be published) and/or more recent "Provisional" data (of unverified accuracy and subject to revision). |
(106 sites)
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Summary of all data for each day for the period of record and may represent the daily mean, median, maximum, minimum, and/or other derived value. Values may include "Approved" (quality-assured data that may be published) and/or more recent "Provisional" data (of unverified accuracy and subject to revision). |
Statistics
(81 sites)
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Statistics are computed from approved daily mean data at each site. These links provide summaries of approved historical daily values for daily, monthly, and annual (water year or calendar year) time periods. |
(12,367 sites)
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Data from field and/or laboratory analyses of water samples, biological tissue, sediments, or other environmental samples. Data include approved, quality-assured data that may be published, and more recent provisional data, whose accuracy has not been verified. |
The USGS collects and analyzes chemical, physical, and biological
properties of water, sediment and tissue samples from across the
Nation. The NWISWeb discrete sample data base is a compilation of over
4.2 million historical water quality analyses in the USGS district data
bases through September 2004. The discrete sample data is a large and
complex set of data that has been collected by a variety of projects
ranging from national programs to studies in small watersheds. Users
should review the help notes and particularly the Data retrieval
precautions before beginning any retrieval or analysis of data from
this data set. Additions of more current data, modifications to
ancillary information, and enhanced retrieval options to help users
find and appropriately use the data they need are planned for a future
release of NWISWeb. At selected surface-water and ground-water sites,
the USGS maintains instruments that continuously record physical and
chemical characteristics of the water including pH, specific
conductance, temperature, dissolved oxygen, and percent
dissolved-oxygen saturation. Supporting data such as air temperature
and barometric pressure are also available at some sites. At sites
where this information is transmitted automatically, data are available
from the real-time data system. You may find additional water-quality
data of interest in EPA STORET. Graphical User Interface for Devils Lake Basin Water-Quality Data For more information, see U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2005-1419. Continuous Water-Quality Estimates for the Red River at Fargo, ND For more information, see U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2006-5241. |