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Talcony Palmyra (DRBC-Talcony Palmyra) site data in the Water Quality Portal

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

This estuary site, maintained by the Delaware River Basin Commission (identifier DRBC), has the name "Talcony Palmyra" and has the identifier DRBC-Talcony Palmyra. This site is in the watershed defined by the 8 digit Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC)02040202.

This site is located in Burlington County County, New Jersey at 39.9950000000 degrees latitude and -75.0543000000 degrees longitude using the datum NAD83. 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 "DRBC-Talcony Palmyra" 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*
Inorganics, Minor, Metals 2004 - 2012
Inorganics, Minor, Non-metals 2004 - 2012
Organics, BDEs 2004 - 2012
Organics, Other 2004 - 2012
Organics, PCBs 2004 - 2015
Physical 2004 - 2012
*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 DRBC
OrganizationFormalName Delaware River Basin Commission
MonitoringLocationIdentifier DRBC-Talcony Palmyra
MonitoringLocationName Talcony Palmyra
MonitoringLocationTypeName Estuary
MonitoringLocationDescriptionText From Palmyra Cove, across Pennsauken Creek and down to the Betsy Ross Bridge (see attached Tacony-Palmyra Site Map.pdf
HUCEightDigitCode 02040202
LatitudeMeasure 39.9950000000
LongitudeMeasure -75.0543000000
HorizontalCollectionMethodName Interpolation-Other
HorizontalCoordinateReferenceSystemDatumName NAD83
CountryCode US
StateCode 34
CountyCode 005
ProviderName STORET