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WQP Home >  Providers >  STORET >  ANIMASWP >  ANIMASWP-Basin Creek

Animas River at Basin Creek SIUT (ANIMASWP-Basin Creek) site data in the Water Quality Portal

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

This river/stream perennial site, maintained by the Animas Watershed Partnership (Volunteer)* (identifier ANIMASWP), has the name "Animas River at Basin Creek SIUT" and has the identifier ANIMASWP-Basin Creek. This site is in the watershed defined by the 8 digit Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC)14080104.

This site is located in La Plata County County, Colorado at 37.1860000000 degrees latitude and -107.8783300000 degrees longitude using the datum OTHER. No horizontal location accuracy metadata is available. This site is at an elevation of 6288 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 "ANIMASWP-Basin Creek" 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

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Characteristic Group Date Range*
Nutrient 2010 - 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 ANIMASWP
OrganizationFormalName Animas Watershed Partnership (Volunteer)*
MonitoringLocationIdentifier ANIMASWP-Basin Creek
MonitoringLocationName Animas River at Basin Creek SIUT
MonitoringLocationTypeName River/Stream Perennial
MonitoringLocationDescriptionText ARNW 2002 Report 2008 from Chester, Basin Creek
HUCEightDigitCode 14080104
LatitudeMeasure 37.1860000000
LongitudeMeasure -107.8783300000
HorizontalCollectionMethodName Unknown
HorizontalCoordinateReferenceSystemDatumName OTHER
VerticalMeasure/MeasureValue 6288
VerticalMeasure/MeasureUnitCode ft
VerticalCollectionMethodName Other
VerticalCoordinateReferenceSystemDatumName UNKWN
CountryCode US
StateCode 08
CountyCode 067
ProviderName STORET