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Turkey Gulch spring below Rockford mine tailings pile to test water quality of Rockford Tunnel outflow below mine (CCWF-TG-1B) site data in the Water Quality Portal

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

This spring site, maintained by the Clear Creek Watershed Foundation (CCWF) (Volunteer) (identifier CCWF), has the name "Turkey Gulch spring below Rockford mine tailings pile to test water quality of Rockford Tunnel outflow below mine" and has the identifier CCWF-TG-1B. This site is in the watershed defined by the 8 digit Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC)10190004.

This site is located in Clear Creek County County, Colorado at 39.7549800000 degrees latitude and -105.5643600000 degrees longitude using the datum OTHER. No horizontal location accuracy metadata is available. This site is at an elevation of 7807 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 "CCWF-TG-1B" into the "Site ID" box under Site Parameters

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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*
Inorganics, Major, Metals 2011 - 2012
Inorganics, Minor, Metals 2011 - 2012
Inorganics, Minor, Non-metals 2011 - 2012
Physical 2011 - 2012
*Date ranges may contain gap years

What other information is available for this location?

Detailed Metadata

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Location Metadata Value
OrganizationIdentifier CCWF
OrganizationFormalName Clear Creek Watershed Foundation (CCWF) (Volunteer)
MonitoringLocationIdentifier CCWF-TG-1B
MonitoringLocationName Turkey Gulch spring below Rockford mine tailings pile to test water quality of Rockford Tunnel outflow below mine
MonitoringLocationTypeName Spring
MonitoringLocationDescriptionText Turkey Gulch Rockford Tunel Project Site
HUCEightDigitCode 10190004
LatitudeMeasure 39.7549800000
LongitudeMeasure -105.5643600000
HorizontalCollectionMethodName Interpolation-Other
HorizontalCoordinateReferenceSystemDatumName OTHER
VerticalMeasure/MeasureValue 7807
VerticalMeasure/MeasureUnitCode ft
VerticalCollectionMethodName Other
VerticalCoordinateReferenceSystemDatumName OTHER
CountryCode US
StateCode 08
CountyCode 019
ProviderName STORET