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Beaver Dam Swim Club (MDEDAT08_WQX-BABD) 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 Maryland Department of the Environment Beaches Data (identifier MDEDAT08_WQX), has the name "Beaver Dam Swim Club" and has the identifier MDEDAT08_WQX-BABD. This site is in the watershed defined by the 8 digit Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC)02060003.

This site is located in Baltimore County County, Maryland at 39.4792560000 degrees latitude and -76.6568140000 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 "MDEDAT08_WQX-BABD" into the "Site ID" box under Site Parameters

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Upstream and downstream locations

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When were data collected at this location?

Periods of record for data characteristic groups

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Characteristic Group Date Range*
Information 2015 - 2018
Microbiological 2014 - 2024
Physical 2015 - 2018
*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 MDEDAT08_WQX
OrganizationFormalName Maryland Department of the Environment Beaches Data
MonitoringLocationIdentifier MDEDAT08_WQX-BABD
MonitoringLocationName Beaver Dam Swim Club
MonitoringLocationTypeName BEACH Program Site-Lake
HUCEightDigitCode 02060003
LatitudeMeasure 39.4792560000
LongitudeMeasure -76.6568140000
HorizontalCollectionMethodName GPS-Unspecified
HorizontalCoordinateReferenceSystemDatumName NAD83
CountryCode US
StateCode 24
CountyCode 005
ProviderName STORET