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Square Lake (SPIRITLK-475423098481400) site data in the Water Quality Portal

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This lake site, maintained by the Spirit Lake Tribal EPA Programs (identifier SPIRITLK), has the name "Square Lake" and has the identifier SPIRITLK-475423098481400. This site is in the watershed defined by the 8 digit Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC)09020201.

This site is located in Benson County County, North Dakota at 47.9064650000 degrees latitude and -98.8040850000 degrees longitude using the datum NAD27. 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 "SPIRITLK-475423098481400" 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*
Biological, Algae, Phytoplankton, Photosynthetic Pigments 2002 - 2004
Biological, Photosynthetic Pigments 2002 - 2004
Inorganics, Major, Metals 2002 - 2004
Inorganics, Major, Non-metals 2002 - 2004
Inorganics, Minor, Metals 2002 - 2004
Nutrient 2002 - 2004
Physical 2002 - 2004
*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 SPIRITLK
OrganizationFormalName Spirit Lake Tribal EPA Programs
MonitoringLocationIdentifier SPIRITLK-475423098481400
MonitoringLocationName Square Lake
MonitoringLocationTypeName Lake
HUCEightDigitCode 09020201
LatitudeMeasure 47.9064650000
LongitudeMeasure -98.8040850000
HorizontalCollectionMethodName GPS-Unspecified
HorizontalCoordinateReferenceSystemDatumName NAD27
CountryCode US
StateCode 38
CountyCode 005
ProviderName STORET