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Birch Hill Wetland 2024 (BADRIVER_WQX-Birch Hill) site data in the Water Quality Portal

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

This wetland undifferentiated site, maintained by the Bad River Band of the Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa Indians of the Bad River Reservation, Wisconsin (identifier BADRIVER_WQX), has the name "Birch Hill Wetland 2024" and has the identifier BADRIVER_WQX-Birch Hill. This site is in the watershed defined by the 8 digit Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC)04010302.

This site is located in Ashland County County, Wisconsin at 46.5120200000 degrees latitude and -90.5592940000 degrees longitude using the datum WGS84. 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 "BADRIVER_WQX-Birch Hill" 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*
Biological, Algae 2024 - 2024
Information 2024 - 2024
Inorganics, Major, Non-metals 2024 - 2024
Not Assigned 2024 - 2024
Nutrient 2024 - 2024
Physical 2024 - 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 BADRIVER_WQX
OrganizationFormalName Bad River Band of the Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa Indians of the Bad River Reservation, Wisconsin
MonitoringLocationIdentifier BADRIVER_WQX-Birch Hill
MonitoringLocationName Birch Hill Wetland 2024
MonitoringLocationTypeName Wetland Undifferentiated
HUCEightDigitCode 04010302
LatitudeMeasure 46.5120200000
LongitudeMeasure -90.5592940000
HorizontalCollectionMethodName GPS-Unspecified
HorizontalCoordinateReferenceSystemDatumName WGS84
CountryCode US
StateCode 55
CountyCode 003
ProviderName STORET