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WQP Home >  Providers >  STORET >  UTEMTN >  UTEMTN-Ruin Spring Creek

Ruin Spring pool (UTEMTN-Ruin Spring Creek) site data in the Water Quality Portal

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

This pond-stormwater site, maintained by the Ute Mountain Utes Tribe (Colorado) (Tribal) (identifier UTEMTN), has the name "Ruin Spring pool" and has the identifier UTEMTN-Ruin Spring Creek. This site is in the watershed defined by the 8 digit Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC)14080201.

This site is located in San Juan County County, Utah at 37.5014125300 degrees latitude and -109.5232216000 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 "UTEMTN-Ruin Spring Creek" 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*
Inorganics, Major, Metals 2013 - 2013
Inorganics, Major, Non-metals 2013 - 2013
Inorganics, Minor, Metals 2013 - 2013
Inorganics, Minor, Non-metals 2013 - 2013
Nutrient 2013 - 2013
Physical 2013 - 2013
Radiochemical 2013 - 2013
*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 UTEMTN
OrganizationFormalName Ute Mountain Utes Tribe (Colorado) (Tribal)
MonitoringLocationIdentifier UTEMTN-Ruin Spring Creek
MonitoringLocationName Ruin Spring pool
MonitoringLocationTypeName Pond-Stormwater
MonitoringLocationDescriptionText Clear pool down canyon from RUIN_SPG.
HUCEightDigitCode 14080201
LatitudeMeasure 37.5014125300
LongitudeMeasure -109.5232216000
HorizontalCollectionMethodName Unknown
HorizontalCoordinateReferenceSystemDatumName NAD83
CountryCode US
StateCode 49
CountyCode 037
ProviderName STORET