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USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Physical Daily Values, Unit Values 1999-01-28 2024-11-23
n/a Peak Measurements 1997-07-18 2022-09-28
n/a USGS Annual Water Data Reports Site 2006-01-01 2023-01-01
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 073745258 is associated with an Estuary in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana. Current conditions of Gage height, Salinity, Specific conductance, and more are available. Water data back to 1997 are available online.

Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
073745258 n/a
Site name
Cow Bayou at American Bay nr Pointe-A-La-Hache, LA n/a
Site type
Estuary
ES
DMS latitude 293414 n/a
DMS longitude 0894214 n/a
Decimal latitude 29.57076989 n/a
Decimal longitude -89.7039524 n/a
Latitude-longitude method
Interpolated from MAP. M
Latitude-longitude accuracy
Unknown or unspecified. U
Latitude-longitude datum
North American Datum of 1927 NAD27
Decimal Latitude-longitude datum North American Datum of 1983 NAD83
District
Louisiana 22
State
Louisiana 22
County
Plaquemines Parish 075
Country US n/a
Land net location description n/a
Name of location map HAPPY JACK, LA n/a
Scale of location map 24000 n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface -0.59 feet n/a
Method altitude determined GNSS2 - Level 2 Quality Survey Grade Global Navigation Satellite System X
Altitude accuracy .16 feet n/a
Altitude datum
North American Vertical Datum of 1988 NAVD88
Subbasin hydrologic unit
08090203
Drainage basin
n/a
Topographic setting
Lake or Swamp
L
Flags for instruments at site YNNNYNNYNNYNNNNNYNNNNNNNNNNNNN n/a
Date of first construction
n/a
Date site established or inventoried n/a
Drainage area
n/a
Contributing drainage area n/a
Time Zone abbreviation CST n/a
Site honors Daylight Saving Time
Y n/a
Data reliability
n/a
Data-other GW files YNNNNNNN 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 AG100 n/a

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