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WQP Home >  Providers >  STORET >  21FLSFWM >  21FLSFWM-LZ25A

Lake Okeechobee, South Side, WQ Station (21FLSFWM-LZ25A) site data in the Water Quality Portal

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

This lake site, maintained by the South Florida Water Management District (identifier 21FLSFWM), has the name "Lake Okeechobee, South Side, WQ Station" and has the identifier 21FLSFWM-LZ25A. This site is in the watershed defined by the 8 digit Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC)03090201.

This site is located in Palm Beach County County, Florida at 26.7444440 degrees latitude and -80.7691670 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 "21FLSFWM-LZ25A" 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*
Biological 2008 - 2009
Information 2008 - 2009
Inorganics, Major, Metals 2008 - 2009
Inorganics, Major, Non-metals 2008 - 2009
Nutrient 2008 - 2009
Physical 2008 - 2009
*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 21FLSFWM
OrganizationFormalName South Florida Water Management District
MonitoringLocationIdentifier 21FLSFWM-LZ25A
MonitoringLocationName Lake Okeechobee, South Side, WQ Station
MonitoringLocationTypeName Lake
MonitoringLocationDescriptionText Lake Okeechobee, South Side, WQ Station
HUCEightDigitCode 03090201
LatitudeMeasure 26.7444440
LongitudeMeasure -80.7691670
HorizontalCollectionMethodName GPS-Unspecified
HorizontalCoordinateReferenceSystemDatumName NAD83
VerticalMeasure/MeasureValue 0
VerticalMeasure/MeasureUnitCode ft
VerticalCoordinateReferenceSystemDatumName Unknown
CountryCode US
StateCode 12
CountyCode 099
ProviderName STORET