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WQP Home >  Providers >  STORET >  21FLDADE >  21FLDADE-LSK8

Long Sound (21FLDADE-LSK8) site data in the Water Quality Portal

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

This estuary site, maintained by the Dade Environmental Resource Management (Florida) (identifier 21FLDADE), has the name "Long Sound" and has the identifier 21FLDADE-LSK8. This site is in the watershed defined by the 8 digit Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC)03090203.

This site is located in Monroe County County, Florida at 25.2363497 degrees latitude and -80.4406401 degrees longitude using the datum NAD83. No horizontal location accuracy metadata is available. This site is at an elevation of 0 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 "21FLDADE-LSK8" 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*
Information 1996 - 2002
Physical 1996 - 2002
*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 21FLDADE
OrganizationFormalName Dade Environmental Resource Management (Florida)
MonitoringLocationIdentifier 21FLDADE-LSK8
MonitoringLocationName Long Sound
MonitoringLocationTypeName Estuary
MonitoringLocationDescriptionText Long Sound
HUCEightDigitCode 03090203
LatitudeMeasure 25.2363497
LongitudeMeasure -80.4406401
HorizontalCollectionMethodName Address Matching-Other
HorizontalCoordinateReferenceSystemDatumName NAD83
VerticalMeasure/MeasureValue 0
VerticalMeasure/MeasureUnitCode ft
VerticalCoordinateReferenceSystemDatumName Unknown
CountryCode US
StateCode 12
CountyCode 087
ProviderName STORET