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Important Inventory Page

USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Biological Water-quality 2020-06-15 2020-09-25
Information Water-quality 2020-06-15 2020-09-25
Inorganics, Major, Non-metals Water-quality 2020-06-15 2020-09-25
Nutrient Water-quality 2020-06-15 2020-09-25
Organics, other Water-quality 2020-06-15 2020-09-25
Physical Water-quality 2020-06-15 2020-09-25
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 01208822 is associated with an Estuary in Fairfield County, Connecticut. Water data back to 2020 are available online.

Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
01208822 n/a
Site name
HOUSATONIC RIVER AT SIKORSKY NEAR STRATFORD, CT n/a
Site type
Estuary
ES
DMS latitude 411511.61 n/a
DMS longitude 0730518.20 n/a
Decimal latitude 41.253225 n/a
Decimal longitude -73.08838889 n/a
Latitude-longitude method
Interpolated from Digital MAP. N
Latitude-longitude accuracy
Accurate to + or - .1 sec (Differentially-Corrected GPS). 1
Latitude-longitude datum
North American Datum of 1983 NAD83
Decimal Latitude-longitude datum North American Datum of 1983 NAD83
District
Connecticut 09
State
Connecticut 09
County
Fairfield County 001
Country US n/a
Land net location description n/a
Name of location map ANSONIA QUAD n/a
Scale of location map 24000 n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface 0 feet n/a
Method altitude determined Interpolated from topographic map. M
Altitude accuracy 1 feet n/a
Altitude datum
North American Vertical Datum of 1988 NAVD88
Subbasin hydrologic unit
Housatonic 01100005
Drainage basin
n/a
Topographic setting
Stream channel
C
Flags for instruments at site NNNNYNNYNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN n/a
Date of first construction
n/a
Date site established or inventoried 20180319 n/a
Drainage area
1930 square miles n/a
Contributing drainage area n/a
Time Zone abbreviation EST n/a
Site honors Daylight Saving Time
Y n/a
Data reliability
n/a
Data-other GW files n/a
National aquifer n/a
Local aquifer n/a
Local aquifer type
n/a
Well depth n/a
Hole depth
n/a
Source of depth data n/a
Project number 001 n/a