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Big Sandy Creek 5 miles west of Alexandria (21NEB001_WQX-SLB2BSNDY208) 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 Nebraska Department of Environment and Energy (identifier 21NEB001_WQX), has the name "Big Sandy Creek 5 miles west of Alexandria" and has the identifier 21NEB001_WQX-SLB2BSNDY208. This site is in the watershed defined by the 8 digit Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC)10270206.

This site is located in Thayer County County, Nebraska at 40.2510880000 degrees latitude and -97.4822810000 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 "21NEB001_WQX-SLB2BSNDY208" 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*
Inorganics, Major, Non-metals 2018 - 2018
Microbiological 2018 - 2018
Nutrient 2018 - 2018
Organics, Pesticide 2018 - 2018
Physical 2018 - 2018
*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-SLB2BSNDY208
MonitoringLocationName Big Sandy Creek 5 miles west of Alexandria
MonitoringLocationTypeName River/Stream
MonitoringLocationDescriptionText From Alexandria take Rd T west to Rd Tu then 3 miles to Rd 6700 south for 0.5 miles to collection site.
HUCEightDigitCode 10270206
LatitudeMeasure 40.2510880000
LongitudeMeasure -97.4822810000
SourceMapScaleNumeric 0
HorizontalCollectionMethodName Interpolation-Map
HorizontalCoordinateReferenceSystemDatumName NAD83
CountryCode US
StateCode 31
CountyCode 169
ProviderName STORET