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South End Pond 3 (Southwestern), Cumberland Island, GA (11NPSWRD_WQX-CUIS_L1_25) 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 "South End Pond 3 (Southwestern), Cumberland Island, GA" and has the identifier 11NPSWRD_WQX-CUIS_L1_25. 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 30.7241667000 degrees latitude and -81.4727778000 degrees longitude using the datum NAD83. No horizontal location accuracy metadata is available. This site is at an elevation of 2.5 ft No vertical location accuracy metadata is available.

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Characteristic Group Date Range*
Biological, Counts 1999 - 1999
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Location Metadata Value
OrganizationIdentifier 11NPSWRD_WQX
OrganizationFormalName National Park Service Water Resources Division
MonitoringLocationIdentifier 11NPSWRD_WQX-CUIS_L1_25
MonitoringLocationName South End Pond 3 (Southwestern), Cumberland Island, GA
MonitoringLocationTypeName Wetland Palustrine-Emergent
MonitoringLocationDescriptionText South End Ponds are classified as palustrine wetlands with unconsolidated bottoms, and represent less than 1 percent of the total wetland areas on Cumberland Island. The South End Ponds are semipermanent water bodies on the southern end of Cumberland Island that are adjacent to salt marshes and Cumberland Sound. The water body sampled as part of this study was named South End Pond 3 because the pond is believed to be Pond 3 sampled by Kozel (1991, fig. 1; Thomas R. Kozel, Anderson College, written commun., 2001). The presence of small debris dams and rills formed by flowing water between South End Pond 3 and Cumberland Sound following Hurricane Floyd suggests inundation by water from Cumberland Sound during storm surges and periods of higher than normal tides. The height of the water surface of South End Pond 3 was 1.3 ft higher in October after Hurricane Floyd than in April 1999. In April 1999, in addition to the lowest height of the water surface measured during this study, South End Pond 3 also had DO concentrations less than 0.5 mg/L compared to welloxygenated water in December 1999 and March 2000.South End Pond 3 had the highest majorion concentrations of any wetland sampled during this study; these concentrations were similar to or greater than typical seawater (Stumm and Morgan, 1996; fig. 7A). Concentrations of major ions in the South End Pond 3 sample collected in April 1999 were greater than typical concentrations in seawater and were most likely due to evaporation of seawater. The hydrochemical facies of two South End Pond 3 samples and of seawater are NaCl. The similarity of the hydrochemical facies, concentration of major ions and TDS in the South End Pond 3 samples to the relative abundance and concentrations of typical seawater suggest that intermittent inundation by seawater and concentration by evapotranspiration are controlling factors in the chemistry of South End Pond 3 water chemistry. Majorion chemistries of samples collected from shallo
HUCEightDigitCode 03070203
LatitudeMeasure 30.7241667000
LongitudeMeasure -81.4727778000
SourceMapScaleNumeric 24000
HorizontalCollectionMethodName GPS-Unspecified
HorizontalCoordinateReferenceSystemDatumName NAD83
VerticalMeasure/MeasureValue 2.5
VerticalMeasure/MeasureUnitCode ft
VerticalCollectionMethodName Topographic Map Interpolation
VerticalCoordinateReferenceSystemDatumName NGVD29
CountryCode US
StateCode 13
CountyCode 039
ProviderName STORET