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New England Power Co. Outfall, Salem Harbor Station, Salem (11NPSWRD_WQX-SAMA_MEQ81_NEP) site data in the Water Quality Portal

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

This facility industrial site, maintained by the National Park Service Water Resources Division (identifier 11NPSWRD_WQX), has the name "New England Power Co. Outfall, Salem Harbor Station, Salem" and has the identifier 11NPSWRD_WQX-SAMA_MEQ81_NEP. This site is in the watershed defined by the 8 digit Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC)01090001.

This site is located in Essex County County, Massachusetts at 42.5257000000 degrees latitude and -70.8717560000 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-SAMA_MEQ81_NEP" into the "Site ID" box under Site Parameters

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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*
Inorganics, Minor, Metals 1978 - 1980
Organics, Other 1978 - 1980
Physical 1978 - 1980
*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-SAMA_MEQ81_NEP
MonitoringLocationName New England Power Co. Outfall, Salem Harbor Station, Salem
MonitoringLocationTypeName Facility Industrial
MonitoringLocationDescriptionText Discharge Type: EFFLUENT, FLYASH TRANSPORT AND CLEANING SYSTEM; Receiving Waters: SALEM HARBOR, ATLANTIC OCEAN; NPDES Permit #: MA0022403; State #: 20. The New England Power Company is a steam electric generating plant the uses either coal or oil to fire their boilers. The plant has six outfalls, with four being cooling water discharges, one a backwash to clean the intake screen, and one as the Flyash transport and cleaning system discharge. Only the Flyash outfall was sampled for this survey.
HUCEightDigitCode 01090001
LatitudeMeasure 42.5257000000
LongitudeMeasure -70.8717560000
HorizontalCollectionMethodName Interpolation-Digital Map Source
HorizontalCoordinateReferenceSystemDatumName NAD83
CountryCode US
StateCode 25
CountyCode 009
ProviderName STORET