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Jewel Lake, center of the lake (AKDECWQ-Jewel Lk-001) site data in the Water Quality Portal

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

This lake site, maintained by the Alaska Dept of Environmental Conservation - Water Quality (identifier AKDECWQ), has the name "Jewel Lake, center of the lake" and has the identifier AKDECWQ-Jewel Lk-001. This site is in the watershed defined by the 8 digit Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC)19020401.

This site is located in Municipality Of Anchorage County, Alaska at 61.1397140000 degrees latitude and -149.9630360000 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 "AKDECWQ-Jewel Lk-001" into the "Site ID" box under Site Parameters

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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*
Information 2008 - 2010
Microbiological 2008 - 2010
Physical 2008 - 2010
*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 AKDECWQ
OrganizationFormalName Alaska Dept of Environmental Conservation - Water Quality
MonitoringLocationIdentifier AKDECWQ-Jewel Lk-001
MonitoringLocationName Jewel Lake, center of the lake
MonitoringLocationTypeName Lake
MonitoringLocationDescriptionText In 2008 and 2009 a water quality assessment was done on Jewel Lake to assess the fecal coliform impairment. Over the course of the monitoring samples were collected at over 250 locations on this 20 acre lake. It was decided to create just one monitoring location for improting the data into AWQMS
HUCEightDigitCode 19020401
LatitudeMeasure 61.1397140000
LongitudeMeasure -149.9630360000
HorizontalCollectionMethodName GPS-Unspecified
HorizontalCoordinateReferenceSystemDatumName NAD83
CountryCode US
StateCode 02
CountyCode 020
ProviderName STORET