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141 Dry Bar (21FLANER_WQX-APADBNUT) site data in the Water Quality Portal

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

This estuary site, maintained by the FDEP APALACHICOLA NATIONAL ESTUARINE RESEARCH RESERVE (identifier 21FLANER_WQX), has the name "141 Dry Bar" and has the identifier 21FLANER_WQX-APADBNUT. This site is in the watershed defined by the 8 digit Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC)03130014.

This site is located in Franklin County County, Florida at 29.6788690560 degrees latitude and -85.0602078090 degrees longitude using the datum NAD83. The horizontal location collection method was "Interpolation-Photo" and the accuracy is Unknown seconds. The source map scale is 1:0.

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

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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*
Biological, Algae, Cyanobacteria 2013 - 2025
Biological, Algae, Phytoplankton 2002 - 2025
Nutrient 2002 - 2025
Physical 2003 - 2025
*Date ranges may contain gap years

What other information is available for this location?

Detailed Metadata

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Location Metadata Value
OrganizationIdentifier 21FLANER_WQX
OrganizationFormalName FDEP APALACHICOLA NATIONAL ESTUARINE RESEARCH RESERVE
MonitoringLocationIdentifier 21FLANER_WQX-APADBNUT
MonitoringLocationName 141 Dry Bar
MonitoringLocationTypeName Estuary
MonitoringLocationDescriptionText The Dry Bar datalogger and nutrient sampling site is located near St. Vincent Sound, in the western part of the Apalachicola Bay system, approximately 0.8 kilometer east of St. Vincent Island. The tower location is 29.6747 N, 85.0584 W. The tides are mixed and range from 0.3 to 1.0 meters. At the sampling site, the depth is 2.0 meters MHW and the width of the bay is 11.2 km. At the Dry Bar site, the datalogger probes are located 1.5 meters below the surface (or 0.3 m off the bottom sediment). This is also the approximate depth where nutrients are collected monthly. Salinity ranges from 0 to 34 psu with a long-term (2002-2017) average salinity of 21.9 psu. Flows vary with local rainfall and are not quantified because the sampling site is influenced by the flow of the Apalachicola River and high salinity water coming through West Pass and Sikes Cut. The bottom type is oyster bar with no vegetation present, except algae that grows on the oysters during the summer months. The dominant upland vegetation includes slash pine (Pinus clausa) flatwoods with various combinations of gallberry (Ilex glabra), smooth cordgrass (Spartina alterniflora), fetterbush (Leucothoe racemosa), cabbage palm (Sabal palmetto), saw palmetto (Serenoa repens), magnolia (Magnolia grandiflora), and grasses. Upland use near the sampling site includes state owned and managed Cape St. George Island, St. Vincent National Wildlife Refuge, as well as single family residential and commercial use in the Apalachicola area
HUCEightDigitCode 03130014
LatitudeMeasure 29.6788690560
LongitudeMeasure -85.0602078090
SourceMapScaleNumeric 0
HorizontalAccuracyMeasure/MeasureValue Unknown
HorizontalAccuracyMeasure/MeasureUnitCode seconds
HorizontalCollectionMethodName Interpolation-Photo
HorizontalCoordinateReferenceSystemDatumName NAD83
CountryCode US
StateCode 12
CountyCode 037
ProviderName STORET