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Blues Creek - in County Park off NW 43rd St (21FLACEP-BLUCOPK) 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 Alachua County Environmental Protection Department (Florida) (identifier 21FLACEP), has the name "Blues Creek - in County Park off NW 43rd St" and has the identifier 21FLACEP-BLUCOPK. This site is in the watershed defined by the 8 digit Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC)03110206.

This site is located in Alachua County County, Florida at 29.7170700 degrees latitude and -82.3929900 degrees longitude using the datum WGS84. No horizontal location accuracy metadata is available. This site is at an elevation of 0 ft No vertical location accuracy metadata is available.

To download the metadata about this site along with water quality data, go to the Portal Page and enter "21FLACEP-BLUCOPK" into the "Site ID" box under Site Parameters

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

Upstream and downstream locations

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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 1999 - 2003
Inorganics, Major, Metals 1999 - 2006
Inorganics, Major, Non-metals 1999 - 2005
Microbiological 1999 - 2006
Nutrient 1999 - 2006
Organics, Other 1999 - 2005
Physical 1998 - 2006
*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 21FLACEP
OrganizationFormalName Alachua County Environmental Protection Department (Florida)
MonitoringLocationIdentifier 21FLACEP-BLUCOPK
MonitoringLocationName Blues Creek - in County Park off NW 43rd St
MonitoringLocationTypeName River/Stream
MonitoringLocationDescriptionText In County Park off NW 73rd Avenue (need County Key #7555); sample 5.0 m upstream of wooden bridge (0.4 miles from gate). Site has vegetated riparian 10+ m, ferns, moss, heavy leaf litter. Sand bottom with detritus. Flow is west.
HUCEightDigitCode 03110206
LatitudeMeasure 29.7170700
LongitudeMeasure -82.3929900
HorizontalCollectionMethodName GPS Code (Pseudo Range) Differential
HorizontalCoordinateReferenceSystemDatumName WGS84
VerticalMeasure/MeasureValue 0
VerticalMeasure/MeasureUnitCode ft
VerticalCoordinateReferenceSystemDatumName Unknown
CountryCode US
StateCode 12
CountyCode 001
ProviderName STORET