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WQP Home >  Providers >  STORET >  21KAN001_WQX >  21KAN001_WQX-SC573

Elk River Near Elk City (21KAN001_WQX-SC573) 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 Kansas Department Of Health And Environment (identifier 21KAN001_WQX), has the name "Elk River Near Elk City" and has the identifier 21KAN001_WQX-SC573. This site is in the watershed defined by the 8 digit Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC)11070104.

This site is located in Montgomery County County, Kansas at 37.2917700000 degrees latitude and -95.9182800000 degrees longitude using the datum WGS84. No horizontal location accuracy metadata is available.

To download the metadata about this site along with water quality data, go to the Portal Page and enter "21KAN001_WQX-SC573" 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 1990 - 2009
Inorganics, Major, Metals 1990 - 2016
Inorganics, Major, Non-metals 1990 - 2016
Inorganics, Minor, Metals 1990 - 2016
Inorganics, Minor, Non-metals 1990 - 2016
Microbiological 1990 - 2016
Nutrient 1990 - 2016
Organics, Other 2000 - 2016
Organics, PCBs 1990 - 2016
Organics, Pesticide 1990 - 2016
Physical 1990 - 2016
Radiochemical 2009 - 2016
*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 21KAN001_WQX
OrganizationFormalName Kansas Department Of Health And Environment
MonitoringLocationIdentifier 21KAN001_WQX-SC573
MonitoringLocationName Elk River Near Elk City
MonitoringLocationTypeName River/Stream
MonitoringLocationDescriptionText County Road Bridge, 0.5 Mile West Of Elk City
HUCEightDigitCode 11070104
LatitudeMeasure 37.2917700000
LongitudeMeasure -95.9182800000
HorizontalCollectionMethodName GPS-Unspecified
HorizontalCoordinateReferenceSystemDatumName WGS84
CountryCode US
StateCode 20
CountyCode 125
ProviderName STORET