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Lake Hopatcong at eastern shoreline south of Brady's Bridge (LHC-NPS-2) site data in the Water Quality Portal

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

This lake site, maintained by the Lake Hopatcong Commission (Volunteer)* (identifier LHC), has the name "Lake Hopatcong at eastern shoreline south of Brady's Bridge" and has the identifier LHC-NPS-2. This site is in the watershed defined by the 8 digit Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC) 02040105. You can learn more about what is happening in this HUC at the EPA's Surf Your Watershed site or at the USGS Science In Your Watershed site.

This site is located in Morris County County, New Jersey at 40.9558970000 degrees latitude and -74.6239430000 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 "LHC-NPS-2" 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 National Linked Data Index, part of the Open Water Data Initiative.

When were data collected at this location?

Periods of record for data characteristic groups
Characteristic Group Date Range*
Information 2011 - 2016
Nutrient 2011 - 2015
Physical 2011 - 2016
*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 LHC
OrganizationFormalName Lake Hopatcong Commission (Volunteer)*
MonitoringLocationIdentifier LHC-NPS-2
MonitoringLocationName Lake Hopatcong at eastern shoreline south of Brady's Bridge
MonitoringLocationTypeName Lake
MonitoringLocationDescriptionText Justification: To continue the long-term, inter-annual water quality monitoring of Lake Hopatcong to assess the overall health of the lake and response to restoration efforts, including the implemented projects as per the 2005 319(h) grant and the US EPA Targeted Watershed Grant.
HUCEightDigitCode 02040105
LatitudeMeasure 40.9558970000
LongitudeMeasure -74.6239430000
HorizontalCollectionMethodName GPS-Unspecified
HorizontalCoordinateReferenceSystemDatumName NAD83
CountryCode US
StateCode 34
CountyCode 027
ProviderName STORET