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Ship canal west end (KINGCOUNTY-Lake Union_SC-W) site data in the Water Quality Portal

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

This lake site, maintained by the King County (Washington) (identifier KINGCOUNTY), has the name "Ship canal west end" and has the identifier KINGCOUNTY-Lake Union_SC-W. This site is in the watershed defined by the 8 digit Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC)17110012.

This site is located in King County County, Washington at 47.6590000000 degrees latitude and -122.3740000000 degrees longitude using the datum WGS84. 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 "KINGCOUNTY-Lake Union_SC-W" 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*
Not Assigned 2021 - 2021
Organics, Other 2021 - 2021
Organics, Pesticide 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 KINGCOUNTY
OrganizationFormalName King County (Washington)
MonitoringLocationIdentifier KINGCOUNTY-Lake Union_SC-W
MonitoringLocationName Ship canal west end
MonitoringLocationTypeName Lake
HUCEightDigitCode 17110012
LatitudeMeasure 47.6590000000
LongitudeMeasure -122.3740000000
SourceMapScaleNumeric 12000
HorizontalCollectionMethodName Interpolation-Digital Map Source
HorizontalCoordinateReferenceSystemDatumName WGS84
CountryCode US
StateCode 53
CountyCode 033
ProviderName STORET