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Emerald Creek just upstream from Redwood Creek (11NPSWRD_WQX-REDW_AND_EMR) 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 "Emerald Creek just upstream from Redwood Creek" and has the identifier 11NPSWRD_WQX-REDW_AND_EMR. This site is in the watershed defined by the 8 digit Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC)18010102.

This site is located in Humboldt County County, California at 41.1985130000 degrees latitude and -123.9921330000 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-REDW_AND_EMR" into the "Site ID" box under Site Parameters

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

Upstream and downstream locations

This map shows all Water Quality Portal stations that are 10 miles upstream (dashed dark blue) and 10 miles downstream (solid light blue) of this monitoring location (indicated by the large blue circle). The upstream and downstream functionality is provided by the Network Linked Data Index.

When were data collected at this location?

Periods of record for data characteristic groups

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Characteristic Group Date Range*
Biological, Counts 1980 - 1981
Biological, Fish 1981 - 1981
Information 1981 - 1981
Physical 1980 - 1981
*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-REDW_AND_EMR
MonitoringLocationName Emerald Creek just upstream from Redwood Creek
MonitoringLocationTypeName River/Stream
MonitoringLocationDescriptionText Emerald Creek (also known as Harry Weir Creek) is tributary to and located on the east side of Redwood Creek. Site is located in the lower Redwood Creek Basin. At the site the stream is an order 4 and the contributing area is 7.8 square km.
HUCEightDigitCode 18010102
LatitudeMeasure 41.1985130000
LongitudeMeasure -123.9921330000
SourceMapScaleNumeric 24000
HorizontalCollectionMethodName Interpolation-Digital Map Source (Tiger)
HorizontalCoordinateReferenceSystemDatumName NAD83
CountryCode US
StateCode 06
CountyCode 023
ProviderName STORET