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Saint_Mary's_River_Shore (BMIC-SMRSH) site data in the Water Quality Portal

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

This great lake site, maintained by the Bay Mills Indian Community (identifier BMIC), has the name "Saint_Mary's_River_Shore" and has the identifier BMIC-SMRSH. This site is in the watershed defined by the 8 digit Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC)04020203.

This site is located in Chippewa County County, Michigan at 46.4529350 degrees latitude and -84.6020090 degrees longitude using the datum WGS84. No horizontal location accuracy metadata is available. This site is at an elevation of 0 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 "BMIC-SMRSH" 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 2006 - 2008
Information 2007 - 2008
Microbiological 2006 - 2008
Nutrient 2005 - 2008
Physical 2005 - 2008
*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 BMIC
OrganizationFormalName Bay Mills Indian Community
MonitoringLocationIdentifier BMIC-SMRSH
MonitoringLocationName Saint_Mary's_River_Shore
MonitoringLocationTypeName Great Lake
MonitoringLocationDescriptionText St. Mary's River is sampled at the shoreline of a populated area with septic tanks.
HUCEightDigitCode 04020203
LatitudeMeasure 46.4529350
LongitudeMeasure -84.6020090
HorizontalCollectionMethodName GPS-Unspecified
HorizontalCoordinateReferenceSystemDatumName WGS84
VerticalMeasure/MeasureValue 0
VerticalMeasure/MeasureUnitCode ft
VerticalCoordinateReferenceSystemDatumName Unknown
CountryCode US
StateCode 26
CountyCode 033
ProviderName STORET