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Hogtown Creek - Upstream of Haile Sink. (21FLACEP-HOGSINK) site data in the Water Quality Portal

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

This river/stream site, maintained by the Alachua County Environmental Protection Department (Florida) (identifier 21FLACEP), has the name "Hogtown Creek - Upstream of Haile Sink." and has the identifier 21FLACEP-HOGSINK. This site is in the watershed defined by the 8 digit Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC)03080102.

This site is located in Alachua County County, Florida at 29.6297300 degrees latitude and -82.4111700 degrees longitude using the datum WGS84. 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 "21FLACEP-HOGSINK" 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*
Inorganics, Major, Metals 2003 - 2007
Inorganics, Major, Non-metals 2003 - 2007
Inorganics, Minor, Metals 2005 - 2007
Microbiological 2001 - 2007
Not Assigned 2002 - 2002
Nutrient 2003 - 2007
Organics, Other 2002 - 2007
Organics, PCBs 2002 - 2002
Organics, Pesticide 2002 - 2002
Physical 2003 - 2007
*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 21FLACEP
OrganizationFormalName Alachua County Environmental Protection Department (Florida)
MonitoringLocationIdentifier 21FLACEP-HOGSINK
MonitoringLocationName Hogtown Creek - Upstream of Haile Sink.
MonitoringLocationTypeName River/Stream
MonitoringLocationDescriptionText On Hogtown Creek - 108.4m upstream of Haile Sink. When road splits gate is on the left; sample at fence, by large oak tree near house with large vine next to small holly tree on north side of property. Bank has gradual slope with trees and vegetation. Stream bottom is sand with limerock boulders. Flow direction is south.
HUCEightDigitCode 03080102
LatitudeMeasure 29.6297300
LongitudeMeasure -82.4111700
HorizontalCollectionMethodName GPS Code (Pseudo Range) Differential
HorizontalCoordinateReferenceSystemDatumName WGS84
VerticalMeasure/MeasureValue 0
VerticalMeasure/MeasureUnitCode ft
VerticalCoordinateReferenceSystemDatumName Unknown
CountryCode US
StateCode 12
CountyCode 001
ProviderName STORET