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WQP Home >  Providers >  STORET >  21MICH >  21MICH-070097

Keweenaw Bay / Lake Superior, Baraga State Park (21MICH-070097) site data in the Water Quality Portal

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

This beach program site-lake site, maintained by the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (identifier 21MICH), has the name "Keweenaw Bay / Lake Superior, Baraga State Park" and has the identifier 21MICH-070097. This site is in the watershed defined by the 8 digit Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC)04020105.

This site is located in Baraga County County, Michigan at 46.7600000 degrees latitude and -88.4996100 degrees longitude using the datum NAD27. 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 "21MICH-070097" into the "Site ID" box under Site Parameters

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Periods of record for data characteristic groups

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Characteristic Group Date Range*
Microbiological 2003 - 2003
*Date ranges may contain gap years

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Detailed Metadata

For the definitions of the metadata elements, please go to the Water Quality Portal user guide

Location Metadata Value
OrganizationIdentifier 21MICH
OrganizationFormalName Michigan Department of Environmental Quality
MonitoringLocationIdentifier 21MICH-070097
MonitoringLocationName Keweenaw Bay / Lake Superior, Baraga State Park
MonitoringLocationTypeName BEACH Program Site-Lake
MonitoringLocationDescriptionText Keweenaw Bay / Lake Superior, Baraga State Park
HUCEightDigitCode 04020105
LatitudeMeasure 46.7600000
LongitudeMeasure -88.4996100
HorizontalCollectionMethodName Interpolation-Spot
HorizontalCoordinateReferenceSystemDatumName NAD27
VerticalMeasure/MeasureValue 0
VerticalMeasure/MeasureUnitCode ft
VerticalCoordinateReferenceSystemDatumName Unknown
CountryCode US
StateCode 26
CountyCode 013
ProviderName STORET