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Big Coal River At MP 31.7 (WVDEP_WQX-15743) site data in the Water Quality Portal

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This river/stream site, maintained by the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection-Division of Water & Waste Management-Watershed Assessment Branch (identifier WVDEP_WQX), has the name "Big Coal River At MP 31.7" and has the identifier WVDEP_WQX-15743. This site is in the watershed defined by the 8 digit Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC)05050009. This site has a drainage area of 161647.9375 ac.

This site is located in Boone County County, West Virginia at 38.0476388900 degrees latitude and -81.5793611100 degrees longitude using the datum NAD83. The horizontal location collection method was "GPS-Unspecified" and the accuracy is 4 ft. This site is at an elevation of 729.9895 ft No vertical location accuracy metadata is available.

To download the metadata about this site along with water quality data, go to the Portal Page and enter "WVDEP_WQX-15743" into the "Site ID" box under Site Parameters

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Characteristic Group Date Range*
Information 2017 - 2017
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Detailed Metadata

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Location Metadata Value
OrganizationIdentifier WVDEP_WQX
OrganizationFormalName West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection-Division of Water & Waste Management-Watershed Assessment Branch
MonitoringLocationIdentifier WVDEP_WQX-15743
MonitoringLocationName Big Coal River At MP 31.7
MonitoringLocationTypeName River/Stream
MonitoringLocationDescriptionText Between UNTs/Big Coal River RMs 31.38 & 32.06 in Keith; On the Sylvester USGS 24k topo quadrangle
HUCEightDigitCode 05050009
DrainageAreaMeasure/MeasureValue 161647.9375
DrainageAreaMeasure/MeasureUnitCode ac
LatitudeMeasure 38.0476388900
LongitudeMeasure -81.5793611100
HorizontalAccuracyMeasure/MeasureValue 4
HorizontalAccuracyMeasure/MeasureUnitCode ft
HorizontalCollectionMethodName GPS-Unspecified
HorizontalCoordinateReferenceSystemDatumName NAD83
VerticalMeasure/MeasureValue 729.9895
VerticalMeasure/MeasureUnitCode ft
VerticalCollectionMethodName Digital Elevation Model
VerticalCoordinateReferenceSystemDatumName OTHER
CountryCode US
StateCode 54
CountyCode 005
ProviderName STORET