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Emerald Lake Outflow near Giant Forest, CA (11NPSWRD_WQX-SEQU_3P_EMERALD) site data in the Water Quality Portal

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

This lake site, maintained by the National Park Service Water Resources Division (identifier 11NPSWRD_WQX), has the name "Emerald Lake Outflow near Giant Forest, CA" and has the identifier 11NPSWRD_WQX-SEQU_3P_EMERALD. This site is in the watershed defined by the 8 digit Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC)18030007.

This site is located in Tulare County County, California at 36.5981572300 degrees latitude and -118.6762661400 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-SEQU_3P_EMERALD" 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*
Information 2011 - 2019
Not Assigned 2011 - 2019
Organics, Other 2011 - 2019
Organics, Pesticide 2011 - 2019
PFAS,Perfluorinated Alkyl Substance 2019 - 2019
Stable Isotopes 2011 - 2011
*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-SEQU_3P_EMERALD
MonitoringLocationName Emerald Lake Outflow near Giant Forest, CA
MonitoringLocationTypeName Lake
MonitoringLocationDescriptionText This station is at Emerald Lake Outflow near Giant Forest, CA. Emerald Lake is in the headwaters area of Marble Fork Kaweah River. This station has an additional ID from USGS-NWIS of 11206700 with the station name of Emerald Lk Outflow nr Giant Forest CA.
HUCEightDigitCode 18030007
LatitudeMeasure 36.5981572300
LongitudeMeasure -118.6762661400
SourceMapScaleNumeric 24000
HorizontalCollectionMethodName Interpolation-Map
HorizontalCoordinateReferenceSystemDatumName WGS84
CountryCode US
StateCode 06
CountyCode 107
ProviderName STORET