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Sweetwater Branch - City of Gainesville old landfill (21FLACEP_WQX-SWBLF) 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_WQX), has the name "Sweetwater Branch - City of Gainesville old landfill" and has the identifier 21FLACEP_WQX-SWBLF. This site is in the watershed defined by the 8 digit Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC)03080102.

This site is located in Alachua County County, Florida at 29.6357100000 degrees latitude and -82.3225700000 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 "21FLACEP_WQX-SWBLF" 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*
Microbiological 2007 - 2007
Physical 2007 - 2007
*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_WQX
OrganizationFormalName Alachua County Environmental Protection Department (Florida)
MonitoringLocationIdentifier 21FLACEP_WQX-SWBLF
MonitoringLocationName Sweetwater Branch - City of Gainesville old landfill
MonitoringLocationTypeName River/Stream
MonitoringLocationDescriptionText Downstream of this site was stabilized by Gabion mattresses in 2005. The stream bed is shifting sand. The banks are eroded and there is some understory and overstory vegetation.
HUCEightDigitCode 03080102
LatitudeMeasure 29.6357100000
LongitudeMeasure -82.3225700000
HorizontalCollectionMethodName Interpolation-Other
HorizontalCoordinateReferenceSystemDatumName NAD83
CountryCode US
StateCode 12
CountyCode 001
ProviderName STORET