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North Cut Pond 2A, Cumberland Island, GA (11NPSWRD_WQX-CUIS_L1_02) site data in the Water Quality Portal

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This wetland palustrine-emergent site, maintained by the National Park Service Water Resources Division (identifier 11NPSWRD_WQX), has the name "North Cut Pond 2A, Cumberland Island, GA" and has the identifier 11NPSWRD_WQX-CUIS_L1_02. This site is in the watershed defined by the 8 digit Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC)03070203.

This site is located in Camden County County, Georgia at 30.9119444000 degrees latitude and -81.4363889000 degrees longitude using the datum NAD83. No horizontal location accuracy metadata is available. This site is at an elevation of 23 ft No vertical location accuracy metadata is available.

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Characteristic Group Date Range*
Biological, Counts 1999 - 1999
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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-CUIS_L1_02
MonitoringLocationName North Cut Pond 2A, Cumberland Island, GA
MonitoringLocationTypeName Wetland Palustrine-Emergent
MonitoringLocationDescriptionText The North Cut Ponds are depressional features in an upland setting about 25 ft above sea level and are not associated with foredunes or rear dunes. These wetland areas are classified as palustrine emergent and represent about 4 percent of the wetland types on Cumberland Island. Because topographic relief is low, there is minimum potential for groundwater inflow from upland areas; in contrast to wetlands associated with dune and swale topography. This results in only minor contributions of ground water to the water in North Cut Ponds.North Cut Pond 2A is about 2 miles inland from the ocean and contained the lowest majorion concentrations and SC of the sampled surfacewater bodies. NO3 and PO4 concentrations in North Cut Pond 2A were low in all three samples. Majorion composition of North Cut Pond 2A is Na¿Mg¿Cl¿SO4. Waterquality samples from North Cut Pond 2A were the only surfacewater samples with a higher percentage of SO4 than rainwater. SC values less than 150 µS/cm, pH values less than 4.5 (which were the lowest measured values in surfacewater samples), and majorion composition suggest that rainfall may be the major source of water and evaporation may be the major loss of water from the wetlands surrounding North Cut Pond. The small wetlands that comprise the North Cut Ponds area are more influenced by precipitation, more isolated from other water bodies, and have shorter hydroperiods than duneassociated wetlands.The aquaticinvertebrate community of North Cut Pond 2A was composed of 20 taxa and was among the most taxonomically rich of those wetlands sampled during this study. The aquaticinvertebrate community in North Cut Pond 2A was dominated by Coleoptera and Hemiptera, although Odonates were common in the December 1999 sample. Unlike other wetlands sampled during this study, invertebrate richness in North Cut Pond 2A was higher during December than in April. Fish communities of North Cut Pond 2A were the least diverse of all sampled water bodies on Cumberland Island and consisted of only mosquitofish, which were collected in April and December 1999.
HUCEightDigitCode 03070203
LatitudeMeasure 30.9119444000
LongitudeMeasure -81.4363889000
SourceMapScaleNumeric 24000
HorizontalCollectionMethodName GPS-Unspecified
HorizontalCoordinateReferenceSystemDatumName NAD83
VerticalMeasure/MeasureValue 23
VerticalMeasure/MeasureUnitCode ft
VerticalCollectionMethodName Topographic Map Interpolation
VerticalCoordinateReferenceSystemDatumName NGVD29
CountryCode US
StateCode 13
CountyCode 039
ProviderName STORET