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County Road 257A-South (21TXBCH-BRA014) site data in the Water Quality Portal

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

This beach program site-ocean site, maintained by the Texas General Land Office (identifier 21TXBCH), has the name "County Road 257A-South" and has the identifier 21TXBCH-BRA014.

This site is located in Brazoria County County, Texas at 28.9898700000 degrees latitude and -95.2375800000 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 "21TXBCH-BRA014" into the "Site ID" box under Site Parameters

What other monitoring locations are upstream or downstream from this one?

Upstream and downstream locations

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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*
Microbiological 2003 - 2024
*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 21TXBCH
OrganizationFormalName Texas General Land Office
MonitoringLocationIdentifier 21TXBCH-BRA014
MonitoringLocationName County Road 257A-South
MonitoringLocationTypeName BEACH Program Site-Ocean
LatitudeMeasure 28.9898700000
LongitudeMeasure -95.2375800000
HorizontalCollectionMethodName Interpolation-Digital Map Source (Tiger)
HorizontalCoordinateReferenceSystemDatumName NAD83
CountryCode US
StateCode 48
CountyCode 039
ProviderName STORET