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High Island - A-389-Standing (USGS-275345093344800) site data in the Water Quality Portal

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This ocean: coastal site, maintained by the USGS Texas Water Science Center (identifier USGS-TX), has the name "High Island - A-389-Standing" and has the identifier USGS-275345093344800. See more details of this site the the USGS NWIS Web page for this site.

This site is located in Unspecified County, Texas at 27.89610235000000 degrees latitude and -93.5801483000000 degrees longitude using the datum NAD83. The horizontal location collection method was "Differentially corrected Global Positioning System." and the accuracy is .1 seconds.

To download the metadata about this site along with water quality data, go to the Portal Page and enter "USGS-275345093344800" into the "Site ID" box under Site Parameters

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Upstream and downstream locations

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When were data collected at this location?

Periods of record for data characteristic groups

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Characteristic Group Date Range*
Biological, Algae, Cyanobacteria 2012 - 2014
Biological, Algae, Cyanobacteria, Photosynthetic,Phycocyanin 2017 - 2018
Biological, Algae, Phytoplankton, Photosynthetic Pigments 2012 - 2018
Information 2012 - 2014
Inorganics, Major, Non-metals 2012 - 2018
Inorganics, Minor, Metals 2012 - 2018
Inorganics, Minor, Non-metals 2012 - 2018
Nutrient 2012 - 2018
Organics, Other 2012 - 2017
Physical 2012 - 2018
*Date ranges may contain gap years

What other information is available for this location?

Detailed Metadata

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Location Metadata Value
OrganizationIdentifier USGS-TX
OrganizationFormalName USGS Texas Water Science Center
MonitoringLocationIdentifier USGS-275345093344800
MonitoringLocationName High Island - A-389-Standing
MonitoringLocationTypeName Ocean: Coastal
LatitudeMeasure 27.89610235000000
LongitudeMeasure -93.5801483000000
HorizontalAccuracyMeasure/MeasureValue .1
HorizontalAccuracyMeasure/MeasureUnitCode seconds
HorizontalCollectionMethodName Differentially corrected Global Positioning System.
HorizontalCoordinateReferenceSystemDatumName NAD83
CountryCode US
StateCode 48
CountyCode 000
ProviderName NWIS