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Phil's Spring (11NPSWRD_WQX-HAFO_BD_PHIL) 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 "Phil's Spring" and has the identifier 11NPSWRD_WQX-HAFO_BD_PHIL. 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 42.7799580000 degrees latitude and -114.9555370000 degrees longitude using the datum NAD83. No horizontal location accuracy metadata is available. This site is at an elevation of 1001.4 m No vertical 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-HAFO_BD_PHIL" 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 2004 - 2005
Inorganics, Major, Non-metals 2004 - 2005
Inorganics, Minor, Metals 2004 - 2005
Nutrient 2004 - 2005
Organics, Other 2004 - 2005
Physical 2004 - 2005
*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-HAFO_BD_PHIL
MonitoringLocationName Phil's Spring
MonitoringLocationTypeName Spring
MonitoringLocationDescriptionText Phil's Spring (T7S R13E 32ACC) was named after the National Park Service's paleontologist, Phil Gensler, who discovered this spring while looking for fossils in the area. The spring is located in the southern portion of HAFO at an elevation of 1001 meters, in a sand aquifer where there was a small slope failure. A small vnotch weir was placed just below the small slide to collect flow rates, also a small monitoring well was placed north of the slide about two meters in order to obtain a representative and uncontaminated sample from the groundwater prior to its exit to the surface. The water was retrieved from the well using a small submersible pump every three months. There was an average of about 0.2 liters per second of water flowing at this location. This site is considered in the sand hydrogeologic group.
HUCEightDigitCode 17040212
LatitudeMeasure 42.7799580000
LongitudeMeasure -114.9555370000
SourceMapScaleNumeric 0
HorizontalCollectionMethodName GPS-Unspecified
HorizontalCoordinateReferenceSystemDatumName NAD83
VerticalMeasure/MeasureValue 1001.4
VerticalMeasure/MeasureUnitCode m
VerticalCollectionMethodName Topographic Map Interpolation
VerticalCoordinateReferenceSystemDatumName NGVD29
CountryCode US
StateCode 16
CountyCode 083
ProviderName STORET