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WQP Home >  Providers >  STORET >  STORLVD_WQX >  STORLVD_WQX-Rice Bay 18

Rice Bay 18 (STORLVD_WQX-Rice Bay 18) site data in the Water Quality Portal

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

This lake site, maintained by the Lac Vieux Desert Band of Lake Superior Chippewa (identifier STORLVD_WQX), has the name "Rice Bay 18" and has the identifier STORLVD_WQX-Rice Bay 18. This site is in the watershed defined by the 8 digit Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC) 07070001. 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 Gogebic County County, Michigan at 46.1480140000 degrees latitude and -89.0651020000 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 "STORLVD_WQX-Rice Bay 18" 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*
Biological 2021 - 2021
Microbiological 2021 - 2021
Nutrient 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 STORLVD_WQX
OrganizationFormalName Lac Vieux Desert Band of Lake Superior Chippewa
MonitoringLocationIdentifier STORLVD_WQX-Rice Bay 18
MonitoringLocationName Rice Bay 18
MonitoringLocationTypeName Lake
HUCEightDigitCode 07070001
LatitudeMeasure 46.1480140000
LongitudeMeasure -89.0651020000
HorizontalCollectionMethodName GPS-Unspecified
HorizontalCoordinateReferenceSystemDatumName WGS84
CountryCode US
StateCode 26
CountyCode 053
ProviderName STORET