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WQP Home >  Providers >  STORET >  GPC5_WQX >  GPC5_WQX-GPBay1.5

Grand Portage Bay Monitoring Location 1.5 (GPC5_WQX-GPBay1.5) site data in the Water Quality Portal

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

This beach program site-great lake site, maintained by the Grand Portage Reservation (identifier GPC5_WQX), has the name "Grand Portage Bay Monitoring Location 1.5" and has the identifier GPC5_WQX-GPBay1.5. This site is in the watershed defined by the 8 digit Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC)09020305.

This site is located in Pennington County County, Minnesota at 47.9572559900 degrees latitude and -95.6889942700 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 "GPC5_WQX-GPBay1.5" 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*
Physical 2021 - 2021
*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 GPC5_WQX
OrganizationFormalName Grand Portage Reservation
MonitoringLocationIdentifier GPC5_WQX-GPBay1.5
MonitoringLocationName Grand Portage Bay Monitoring Location 1.5
MonitoringLocationTypeName BEACH Program Site-Great Lake
HUCEightDigitCode 09020305
LatitudeMeasure 47.9572559900
LongitudeMeasure -95.6889942700
SourceMapScaleNumeric 1
HorizontalCollectionMethodName Interpolation-Map
HorizontalCoordinateReferenceSystemDatumName NAD83
CountryCode US
StateCode 27
CountyCode 113
ProviderName STORET