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1993 North Plateau Landslide Spring (11NPSWRD_WQX-HAFO_BD_1993NLS) site data in the Water Quality Portal

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

This spring site, maintained by the National Park Service Water Resources Division (identifier 11NPSWRD_WQX), has the name "1993 North Plateau Landslide Spring" and has the identifier 11NPSWRD_WQX-HAFO_BD_1993NLS. This site is in the watershed defined by the 8 digit Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC)17040212.

This site is located in Twin Falls County County, Idaho at 42.8588770000 degrees latitude and -114.9150880000 degrees longitude using the datum NAD83. No horizontal location accuracy metadata is available. This site is at an elevation of 960.8 m No vertical location accuracy metadata is available.

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Characteristic Group Date Range*
Inorganics, Major, Metals 2004 - 2005
Inorganics, Major, Non-metals 2004 - 2005
Inorganics, Minor, Metals 2004 - 2005
Nutrient 2004 - 2005
Organics, Other 2004 - 2005
Physical 2004 - 2005
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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-HAFO_BD_1993NLS
MonitoringLocationName 1993 North Plateau Landslide Spring
MonitoringLocationTypeName Spring
MonitoringLocationDescriptionText The 1993 North Plateau Landslide Spring (T6S R13E 33ACD) is located in the North area of the Bell Rapids plateau on BLM property, occurring in approximately 1993 and next to a paleo landslide. The spring is at an elevation of 960 meters. This entire slide complex is unstable with many large boulders covering the complex. In October 2005, there was a large range fire that cleared vegetation on the hillside. The retrieval of samples occurred about ten meters from the base of the basalt due to the many large boulders blocking the spring discharge at the base. At this location a weir was placed to make flow measurements and collect the water samples. In February 2005, a small slide occurred below the spring, moving rocks and mud down the slope and causing the blockage of the weir. At the sampling location, average flow is about 0.12 liters per second, which is only a small fraction of the total flow. Below this point the water flows underneath a rock wall (approximately 10 meters down slope), then out again, producing a small pond of water below the main complex. Grab samples were retrieved once every three months. There also appears to be a second source of water seeping down the hill and west of the slide, as evidenced by the presence of fresh vegetation after the fire occurred. The source of water in the slide area is estimated to be from deep percolation and regional groundwater. This site is considered to reside in the basalt hydrogeologic group.
HUCEightDigitCode 17040212
LatitudeMeasure 42.8588770000
LongitudeMeasure -114.9150880000
SourceMapScaleNumeric 0
HorizontalCollectionMethodName GPS-Unspecified
HorizontalCoordinateReferenceSystemDatumName NAD83
VerticalMeasure/MeasureValue 960.8
VerticalMeasure/MeasureUnitCode m
VerticalCollectionMethodName Topographic Map Interpolation
VerticalCoordinateReferenceSystemDatumName NGVD29
CountryCode US
StateCode 16
CountyCode 083
ProviderName STORET