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WQP Home >  Providers >  STORET >  ANIMASWP >  ANIMASWP-Salt Creek 309A

Salt Creek at 309A (ANIMASWP-Salt Creek 309A) 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 "Salt Creek at 309A" and has the identifier ANIMASWP-Salt Creek 309A. 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 37.1396390000 degrees latitude and -107.7501500000 degrees longitude using the datum WGS84. No horizontal location accuracy metadata is available. This site is at an elevation of 6502 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-Salt Creek 309A" 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*
Microbiological 2015 - 2015
Nutrient 2015 - 2015
Physical 2015 - 2015
*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-Salt Creek 309A
MonitoringLocationName Salt Creek at 309A
MonitoringLocationTypeName River/Stream Perennial
MonitoringLocationDescriptionText Salt Creek at County Road 309A Bridge upstream side, County Right-of-way
HUCEightDigitCode 14080104
LatitudeMeasure 37.1396390000
LongitudeMeasure -107.7501500000
HorizontalCollectionMethodName Interpolation-Satellite
HorizontalCoordinateReferenceSystemDatumName WGS84
VerticalMeasure/MeasureValue 6502
VerticalMeasure/MeasureUnitCode ft
VerticalCollectionMethodName Other
VerticalCoordinateReferenceSystemDatumName UNKWN
CountryCode US
StateCode 08
CountyCode 067
ProviderName STORET