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TIMPAS CREEK NEAR ROCKY FORD (21COL001_WQX-7501) 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 Colorado Dept. of Public Health & Environment-WQCD (identifier 21COL001_WQX), has the name "TIMPAS CREEK NEAR ROCKY FORD" and has the identifier 21COL001_WQX-7501. This site is in the watershed defined by the 8 digit Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC)11020005.

This site is located in Otero County County, Colorado at 37.9530050000 degrees latitude and -103.7244100000 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 "21COL001_WQX-7501" 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

For a more detailed breakdown of data, go to the Monitoring Report at the EPA How's My Waterway Application
Characteristic Group Date Range*
Biological, Algae, Phytoplankton 2015 - 2015
Biological, Counts 2002 - 2015
Information 2015 - 2015
Inorganics, Major, Metals 2011 - 2016
Inorganics, Major, Non-metals 2010 - 2016
Inorganics, Minor, Metals 2010 - 2016
Inorganics, Minor, Non-metals 2010 - 2016
Nutrient 2010 - 2016
Physical 2010 - 2016
Radiochemical 2015 - 2016
*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 21COL001_WQX
OrganizationFormalName Colorado Dept. of Public Health & Environment-WQCD
MonitoringLocationIdentifier 21COL001_WQX-7501
MonitoringLocationName TIMPAS CREEK NEAR ROCKY FORD
MonitoringLocationTypeName River/Stream
MonitoringLocationDescriptionText Take Hwy 71 south out of Rocky Ford to Cty Rd Y. Go east on Cty Rd Y to the siphon and then north to canal. The coordinates were updated 091510 based on the descriptive paragraph in legacy STORET. The 1993 location was 37:57:16 103:43:10 (D:M:S)
HUCEightDigitCode 11020005
LatitudeMeasure 37.9530050000
LongitudeMeasure -103.7244100000
SourceMapScaleNumeric 24000
HorizontalCollectionMethodName Interpolation-Digital Map Source
HorizontalCoordinateReferenceSystemDatumName WGS84
CountryCode US
StateCode 08
CountyCode 089
ProviderName STORET