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Turkey Creek - San Felasco State Preserve (21FLACEP_WQX-TURKSFSP) 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 "Turkey Creek - San Felasco State Preserve" and has the identifier 21FLACEP_WQX-TURKSFSP. 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 29.7555800000 degrees latitude and -82.4384300000 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 "21FLACEP_WQX-TURKSFSP" 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 1999 - 2003
Information 2008 - 2013
Inorganics, Major, Metals 2003 - 2013
Inorganics, Major, Non-metals 1999 - 2013
Inorganics, Minor, Metals 2006 - 2013
Inorganics, Minor, Non-metals 2013 - 2013
Microbiological 1999 - 2013
Nutrient 1999 - 2013
Organics, Other 1999 - 2013
Physical 1999 - 2013
*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-TURKSFSP
MonitoringLocationName Turkey Creek - San Felasco State Preserve
MonitoringLocationTypeName River/Stream
MonitoringLocationDescriptionText From US 441, turn SW on CR 235 then west on CR 241; east on 109th Lane to Ranger Station at 122720 NW 109th Lane; sample 8.5m downstream of staff gage. Vegetated floodplain; banks are vertical, sparsely vegetated, with moss and heavy leaf litter. Bottom has firm sand with heavy leaf litter. Flow is SSW.
HUCEightDigitCode 03110206
LatitudeMeasure 29.7555800000
LongitudeMeasure -82.4384300000
HorizontalCollectionMethodName GPS Code (Pseudo Range) Differential
HorizontalCoordinateReferenceSystemDatumName WGS84
CountryCode US
StateCode 12
CountyCode 001
ProviderName STORET