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Big Indian Lake (11A) -- Swimming Beach -- Site 04 (21NEB001_WQX-LBB1BIGIND04) site data in the Water Quality Portal

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

This lake site, maintained by the Nebraska Department of Environment and Energy (identifier 21NEB001_WQX), has the name "Big Indian Lake (11A) -- Swimming Beach -- Site 04" and has the identifier 21NEB001_WQX-LBB1BIGIND04. This site is in the watershed defined by the 8 digit Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC)10270202.

This site is located in Gage County County, Nebraska at 40.0590400000 degrees latitude and -96.6954230000 degrees longitude using the datum UNKWN. 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 "21NEB001_WQX-LBB1BIGIND04" 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*
Cyanotoxins, Phytotoxins 2009 - 2022
Microbiological 2009 - 2022
*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 21NEB001_WQX
OrganizationFormalName Nebraska Department of Environment and Energy
MonitoringLocationIdentifier 21NEB001_WQX-LBB1BIGIND04
MonitoringLocationName Big Indian Lake (11A) -- Swimming Beach -- Site 04
MonitoringLocationTypeName Lake
MonitoringLocationDescriptionText Located 6 miles East and one mile north of Odell, NE. Sample collected at the swimming beach area on the south side of lake.
HUCEightDigitCode 10270202
LatitudeMeasure 40.0590400000
LongitudeMeasure -96.6954230000
SourceMapScaleNumeric 0
HorizontalCollectionMethodName Interpolation-Map
HorizontalCoordinateReferenceSystemDatumName UNKWN
CountryCode US
StateCode 31
CountyCode 067
ProviderName STORET