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Escalante Cr - Escalante Cr at Capa Spring (CORIVWCH_WQX-3736) site data in the Water Quality Portal

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

This river/stream site, maintained by the Colorado River Watch (Volunteer) (identifier CORIVWCH_WQX), has the name "Escalante Cr - Escalante Cr at Capa Spring" and has the identifier CORIVWCH_WQX-3736. This site is in the watershed defined by the 8 digit Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC)14020005.

This site is located in Delta County County, Colorado at 38.6749518000 degrees latitude and -108.3167701000 degrees longitude using the datum NAD83. No horizontal location accuracy metadata is available. This site is at an elevation of 5422 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 "CORIVWCH_WQX-3736" into the "Site ID" box under Site Parameters

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Upstream and downstream locations

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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*
Biological, Counts 2023 - 2023
Information 2023 - 2023
Inorganics, Major, Metals 2023 - 2024
Inorganics, Minor, Metals 2023 - 2024
Inorganics, Minor, Non-metals 2023 - 2024
Not Assigned 2023 - 2023
Physical 2023 - 2024
Physical, Habitat 2023 - 2023
*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 CORIVWCH_WQX
OrganizationFormalName Colorado River Watch (Volunteer)
MonitoringLocationIdentifier CORIVWCH_WQX-3736
MonitoringLocationName Escalante Cr - Escalante Cr at Capa Spring
MonitoringLocationTypeName River/Stream
MonitoringLocationDescriptionText From Delta: US 50 north to Dominguez-Escalante parking area/650Rd. 650Rd. to BLM boundary. First turnout on left past BLM fence. Walk down hill to site.
HUCEightDigitCode 14020005
LatitudeMeasure 38.6749518000
LongitudeMeasure -108.3167701000
SourceMapScaleNumeric 160000
HorizontalCollectionMethodName Interpolation-Map
HorizontalCoordinateReferenceSystemDatumName NAD83
VerticalMeasure/MeasureValue 5422
VerticalMeasure/MeasureUnitCode ft
VerticalCollectionMethodName Topographic Map Interpolation
VerticalCoordinateReferenceSystemDatumName SEALV
CountryCode US
StateCode 08
CountyCode 029
ProviderName STORET