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Pokegama Lake Beach (LDFWATER2007-POKBEA) site data in the Water Quality Portal

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

This beach program site-lake site, maintained by the Lac Du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians Water Program (identifier LDFWATER2007), has the name "Pokegama Lake Beach" and has the identifier LDFWATER2007-POKBEA. This site is in the watershed defined by the 8 digit Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC)07050002.

This site is located in Vilas County County, Wisconsin at 45.9730000000 degrees latitude and -89.9130000000 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 "LDFWATER2007-POKBEA" into the "Site ID" box under Site Parameters

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Characteristic Group Date Range*
Microbiological 2008 - 2024
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Detailed Metadata

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Location Metadata Value
OrganizationIdentifier LDFWATER2007
OrganizationFormalName Lac Du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians Water Program
MonitoringLocationIdentifier LDFWATER2007-POKBEA
MonitoringLocationName Pokegama Lake Beach
MonitoringLocationTypeName BEACH Program Site-Lake
MonitoringLocationDescriptionText Beach located next to the Lake of the Torches Resort & Casino. This beach is not very big but quite popular. Hwy 47 is about 50' from the water's edge. From the road sides, the land slopes towards the beach. Most of the slope is covered with 3-4' herbaceous plants transitioning to lawn grass to the waters edge with a narrow band of sand. There is usually a family of Canada geese at this beach and surrounding area.
HUCEightDigitCode 07050002
LatitudeMeasure 45.9730000000
LongitudeMeasure -89.9130000000
HorizontalCollectionMethodName GPS-Unspecified
HorizontalCoordinateReferenceSystemDatumName NAD83
CountryCode US
StateCode 55
CountyCode 125
ProviderName STORET