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Mine Discharge Hezier Creek northeast of Poca, W.Va. (211WVOWR-KP-001-0041) site data in the Water Quality Portal

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

This mine/mine discharge site, maintained by the WV Div of Environmental Protection, Office of Water Resource (identifier 211WVOWR), has the name "Mine Discharge Hezier Creek northeast of Poca, W.Va." and has the identifier 211WVOWR-KP-001-0041. This site is in the watershed defined by the 8 digit Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC)05050008.

This site is located in Putnam County County, West Virginia at 38.4985833 degrees latitude and -81.7830277 degrees longitude using the datum NAD27. 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 "211WVOWR-KP-001-0041" into the "Site ID" box under Site Parameters

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Upstream and downstream locations

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When were data collected at this location?

Periods of record for data characteristic groups

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Characteristic Group Date Range*
Inorganics, Major, Non-metals 2002 - 2002
Inorganics, Minor, Metals 2002 - 2002
Physical 2002 - 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 211WVOWR
OrganizationFormalName WV Div of Environmental Protection, Office of Water Resource
MonitoringLocationIdentifier 211WVOWR-KP-001-0041
MonitoringLocationName Mine Discharge Hezier Creek northeast of Poca, W.Va.
MonitoringLocationTypeName Mine/Mine Discharge
MonitoringLocationDescriptionText Mine Discharge at Mile Point 2.2 of Hezier Creek northeast of Town of Poca, Putnam County, West Virginia.¶<** Saint Albans Topographic Map **>
HUCEightDigitCode 05050008
LatitudeMeasure 38.4985833
LongitudeMeasure -81.7830277
SourceMapScaleNumeric 24000
HorizontalCollectionMethodName GPS-Unspecified
HorizontalCoordinateReferenceSystemDatumName NAD27
VerticalMeasure/MeasureValue 0
VerticalMeasure/MeasureUnitCode ft
VerticalCoordinateReferenceSystemDatumName Unknown
CountryCode US
StateCode 54
CountyCode 079
ProviderName STORET