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Helictite Pool in Pellucidar Room in Lechuguilla Cave (11NPSWRD_WQX-CAVE_PAL_HELC) site data in the Water Quality Portal

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

This cave site, maintained by the National Park Service Water Resources Division (identifier 11NPSWRD_WQX), has the name "Helictite Pool in Pellucidar Room in Lechuguilla Cave" and has the identifier 11NPSWRD_WQX-CAVE_PAL_HELC. This site is in the watershed defined by the 8 digit Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC)13060011.

This site is located in Eddy County County, New Mexico at 32.1845253000 degrees latitude and -104.5032903000 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-CAVE_PAL_HELC" into the "Site ID" box under Site Parameters

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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*
Inorganics, Major, Metals 1988 - 1988
Inorganics, Major, Non-metals 1988 - 1988
Nutrient 1988 - 1988
Organics, Pesticide 1988 - 1988
Physical 1988 - 1988
*Date ranges may contain gap years

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Detailed Metadata

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Location Metadata Value
OrganizationIdentifier 11NPSWRD_WQX
OrganizationFormalName National Park Service Water Resources Division
MonitoringLocationIdentifier 11NPSWRD_WQX-CAVE_PAL_HELC
MonitoringLocationName Helictite Pool in Pellucidar Room in Lechuguilla Cave
MonitoringLocationTypeName Cave
MonitoringLocationDescriptionText Access to Lechuguilla Cave is limited to approved scientific researchers, survey and exploration teams, and NPS managementrelated trips. Park natural resources staff have requested that individual station lat/long coordinates for the cave sites be entered under one general location at Latitude 32.1845253 degrees North and Longitude 104.5032903 degrees West. This point does not represent the actual position of the Helictite pool in Pellucidar. Pellucidar is a large high level room above Deep Secrets in the Southwestern Branch of Lechuguilla Cave, approximately 230 meters below the entrance. The room is decorated with active flowstone, dripstone, and cave pearls. Gypsum blocks up to several meters thick cover parts of the limestone floor. The Helictite pool is about 0.6 meter by 1.0 meter in surface area and 2.4 meters deep with a gentle slope of wet white calcite flowstone. The pool is filled to overflowing by a thin film of water flowing over nearby stalactites and flowstone. It is lined with a subaqueous mammillary calcite crust and rimmed by thin shelfstone up to 12 cm wide. Lechuguilla Cave is within the boundaries of Carlsbad Caverns National Park and the site can be found on the Serpentine Bends USGS 1:24000 topographic quadrangle.
HUCEightDigitCode 13060011
LatitudeMeasure 32.1845253000
LongitudeMeasure -104.5032903000
SourceMapScaleNumeric 24000
HorizontalCollectionMethodName Interpolation-Digital Map Source (Tiger)
HorizontalCoordinateReferenceSystemDatumName WGS84
CountryCode US
StateCode 35
CountyCode 015
ProviderName STORET