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P143 - French River (EPA_GLNPO-P143) 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 EPA Great Lakes National Program (identifier EPA_GLNPO), has the name "P143 - French River" and has the identifier EPA_GLNPO-P143.

This site is located in St. Louis County County, Minnesota at 46.8666670000 degrees latitude and -91.9000000000 degrees longitude using the datum UNKWN. 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 "EPA_GLNPO-P143" 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 1986 - 2007
Biological, Counts 1986 - 2007
Biological, Fish 1986 - 2005
Inorganics, Minor, Metals 1986 - 2007
Not Assigned 1986 - 2008
Organics, BDEs 1999 - 2007
Organics, Other 1986 - 2008
Organics, PCBs 1986 - 2008
Organics, Pesticide 1986 - 2007
Physical 1986 - 2007
Radiochemical 1999 - 1999
*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 EPA_GLNPO
OrganizationFormalName EPA Great Lakes National Program
MonitoringLocationIdentifier EPA_GLNPO-P143
MonitoringLocationName P143 - French River
MonitoringLocationTypeName Great Lake
MonitoringLocationDescriptionText Fish Monitoring Port - French River (L. Superior)
LatitudeMeasure 46.8666670000
LongitudeMeasure -91.9000000000
SourceMapScaleNumeric 24000
HorizontalCollectionMethodName Interpolation-Map
HorizontalCoordinateReferenceSystemDatumName UNKWN
CountryCode US
StateCode 27
CountyCode 137
ProviderName STORET