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White Fish Lake (11NPSWRD_WQX-BELA_NPS_WFL) site data in the Water Quality Portal

Data Provider: STORET (Learn more about Water Quality Portal Data Providers)

This lake site, maintained by the National Park Service Water Resources Division (identifier 11NPSWRD_WQX), has the name "White Fish Lake" and has the identifier 11NPSWRD_WQX-BELA_NPS_WFL.

This site is located in Nome Census Area County, Alaska at 66.3793127000 degrees latitude and -164.7473298000 degrees longitude using the datum WGS84. No horizontal location accuracy metadata is available.

To download the metadata about this site along with water quality data, go to the Portal Page and enter "11NPSWRD_WQX-BELA_NPS_WFL" into the "Site ID" box under Site Parameters

What other monitoring locations are upstream or downstream from this one?

Upstream and downstream locations

This map shows all Water Quality Portal stations that are 10 miles upstream (dashed dark blue) and 10 miles downstream (solid light blue) of this monitoring location (indicated by the large blue circle). The upstream and downstream functionality is provided by the Network Linked Data Index.

When were data collected at this location?

Periods of record for data characteristic groups

For a more detailed breakdown of data, go to the Monitoring Report at the EPA How's My Waterway Application
Characteristic Group Date Range*
Information 1974 - 1974
Inorganics, Major, Metals 1973 - 1973
Inorganics, Major, Non-metals 1973 - 1973
Inorganics, Minor, Metals 1973 - 1973
Nutrient 1973 - 1973
Physical 1973 - 1973
*Date ranges may contain gap years

What other information is available for this location?

Detailed Metadata

For the definitions of the metadata elements, please go to the Water Quality Portal user guide

Location Metadata Value
OrganizationIdentifier 11NPSWRD_WQX
OrganizationFormalName National Park Service Water Resources Division
MonitoringLocationIdentifier 11NPSWRD_WQX-BELA_NPS_WFL
MonitoringLocationName White Fish Lake
MonitoringLocationTypeName Lake
MonitoringLocationDescriptionText This station is at White Fish Lake in western Alaska. This is an approximate location as no specific location was provided; midlake was chosen for this station.
LatitudeMeasure 66.3793127000
LongitudeMeasure -164.7473298000
SourceMapScaleNumeric 63360
HorizontalCollectionMethodName Interpolation-Digital Map Source (Tiger)
HorizontalCoordinateReferenceSystemDatumName WGS84
CountryCode US
StateCode 02
CountyCode 180
ProviderName STORET