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Onion Creek below Highway 30 near Montour, IA (MESKWAKI_DNR-MESKWAKI_DNR-05451753) site data in the Water Quality Portal

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

This river/stream site, maintained by the Meskwaki Department of Natural Resources (Tribal) (identifier MESKWAKI_DNR), has the name "Onion Creek below Highway 30 near Montour, IA" and has the identifier MESKWAKI_DNR-MESKWAKI_DNR-05451753. This site is in the watershed defined by the 8 digit Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC) 07080208. 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 Tama County County, Iowa at 41.9990000000 degrees latitude and -92.6710500000 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 "MESKWAKI_DNR-MESKWAKI_DNR-05451753" 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*
Inorganics, Minor, Metals 2021 - 2021
Microbiological 2021 - 2021
Nutrient 2021 - 2021
Organics, Pesticide 2021 - 2021
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 MESKWAKI_DNR
OrganizationFormalName Meskwaki Department of Natural Resources (Tribal)
MonitoringLocationIdentifier MESKWAKI_DNR-MESKWAKI_DNR-05451753
MonitoringLocationName Onion Creek below Highway 30 near Montour, IA
MonitoringLocationTypeName River/Stream
HUCEightDigitCode 07080208
LatitudeMeasure 41.9990000000
LongitudeMeasure -92.6710500000
HorizontalCollectionMethodName GPS-Unspecified
HorizontalCoordinateReferenceSystemDatumName WGS84
CountryCode US
StateCode 19
CountyCode 171
ProviderName STORET