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Gateway National Recreation Area Hexagon 7 Station 2003 (11NPSWRD_WQX-GATE_NCBN_3HX07) site data in the Water Quality Portal

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

This estuary site, maintained by the National Park Service Water Resources Division (identifier 11NPSWRD_WQX), has the name "Gateway National Recreation Area Hexagon 7 Station 2003" and has the identifier 11NPSWRD_WQX-GATE_NCBN_3HX07. This site is in the watershed defined by the 8 digit Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC)02030202.

This site is located in Kings County County, New York at 40.5823000000 degrees latitude and -73.9471000000 degrees longitude using the datum NAD83. 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-GATE_NCBN_3HX07" into the "Site ID" box under Site Parameters

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

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, Phytoplankton 2003 - 2003
Physical 2003 - 2003
*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-GATE_NCBN_3HX07
MonitoringLocationName Gateway National Recreation Area Hexagon 7 Station 2003
MonitoringLocationTypeName Estuary
MonitoringLocationDescriptionText The station is located in Northeast Coastal and Barrier Monitoring Network Hexagon 7 in Gateway National Recreation Area, Jamaica Bay unit, New York. Changes in the hexagon grids following the first year of monitoring resulted in the same sampling station being assigned to different hexagons in subsequent years. In 2003 hexagon 7 was located west of hexagon 8.
HUCEightDigitCode 02030202
LatitudeMeasure 40.5823000000
LongitudeMeasure -73.9471000000
SourceMapScaleNumeric 0
HorizontalCollectionMethodName GPS-Unspecified
HorizontalCoordinateReferenceSystemDatumName NAD83
CountryCode US
StateCode 36
CountyCode 047
ProviderName STORET