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Starling Basin Pools (11NPSWRD_WQX-NGPN_MORU_SBP) site data in the Water Quality Portal

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

This river/stream site, maintained by the National Park Service Water Resources Division (identifier 11NPSWRD_WQX), has the name "Starling Basin Pools" and has the identifier 11NPSWRD_WQX-NGPN_MORU_SBP. This site is in the watershed defined by the 8 digit Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC)10120109.

This site is located in Pennington County County, South Dakota at 43.8739166700 degrees latitude and -103.4621111100 degrees longitude using the datum WGS84. 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-NGPN_MORU_SBP" into the "Site ID" box under Site Parameters

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Periods of record for data characteristic groups

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Characteristic Group Date Range*
Biological, Counts 2001 - 2001
*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-NGPN_MORU_SBP
MonitoringLocationName Starling Basin Pools
MonitoringLocationTypeName River/Stream
MonitoringLocationDescriptionText This station is at Starling Basin pools. The station represents a transect of the entire length of a small unnamed stream flowing in Starling Basin (approximately 0.8 kilometers) within Mount Rushmore National Memorial. There were 12 pools along the transect which were sampled. However, only one set of coordinates were recorded and are used here for the station. Researchers described the stream as only small pools formed by large boulders, flow was very low, heavy canopy and large rock outcroppings, and substrate was sand and gravel.
HUCEightDigitCode 10120109
LatitudeMeasure 43.8739166700
LongitudeMeasure -103.4621111100
HorizontalCollectionMethodName GPS Code (Pseudo Range) Standard Position (SA Off)
HorizontalCoordinateReferenceSystemDatumName WGS84
CountryCode US
StateCode 46
CountyCode 103
ProviderName STORET