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USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Physical Unit Values 2022-05-19 2024-11-24
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Monitoring location 422303071084301 is associated with a Lake, Reservoir, Impoundment in Middlesex County, Massachusetts. Current conditions of Phycocyanin fluorescence (fPC) and Temperature are available. Water data back to 2022 are available online.

Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
422303071084301 n/a
Site name
FRESH POND BUOY, NEAR INTAKE AT CAMBRIDGE, MA n/a
Site type
Lake, Reservoir, Impoundment
LK
DMS latitude 422303 n/a
DMS longitude 0710843 n/a
Decimal latitude 42.38416667 n/a
Decimal longitude -71.14527778 n/a
Latitude-longitude method
Mapping grade GPS unit (handheld accuracy range 12 to 40 ft) G
Latitude-longitude accuracy
Accurate to + or - .5 sec (PLGR/PPS GPS). 5
Latitude-longitude datum
North American Datum of 1983 NAD83
Decimal Latitude-longitude datum North American Datum of 1983 NAD83
District
Massachusetts 25
State
Massachusetts 25
County
Middlesex County 017
Country US n/a
Land net location description n/a
Name of location map LEXINGTON, MA n/a
Scale of location map 24000 n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface n/a
Method altitude determined n/a
Altitude accuracy n/a
Altitude datum
n/a
Subbasin hydrologic unit
Charles 01090001
Drainage basin
n/a
Topographic setting
n/a
Flags for instruments at site YNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN n/a
Date of first construction
20220519 n/a
Date site established or inventoried 20220519 n/a
Drainage area
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 LG00U150000 n/a