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WQP Home >  Providers >  STORET >  21MICH >  21MICH-270174

Lake Superior, Black River Harbor Beach (21MICH-270174) site data in the Water Quality Portal

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

This beach program site-lake site, maintained by the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (identifier 21MICH), has the name "Lake Superior, Black River Harbor Beach" and has the identifier 21MICH-270174. This site is in the watershed defined by the 8 digit Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC)04020101.

This site is located in Gogebic County County, Michigan at 46.6672600 degrees latitude and -90.0473000 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 "21MICH-270174" into the "Site ID" box under Site Parameters

What other monitoring locations are upstream or downstream from this one?

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*
Microbiological 2003 - 2003
*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 21MICH
OrganizationFormalName Michigan Department of Environmental Quality
MonitoringLocationIdentifier 21MICH-270174
MonitoringLocationName Lake Superior, Black River Harbor Beach
MonitoringLocationTypeName BEACH Program Site-Lake
MonitoringLocationDescriptionText Lake Superior, Black River Harbor Beach
HUCEightDigitCode 04020101
LatitudeMeasure 46.6672600
LongitudeMeasure -90.0473000
HorizontalCollectionMethodName Interpolation-Spot
HorizontalCoordinateReferenceSystemDatumName NAD27
VerticalMeasure/MeasureValue 0
VerticalMeasure/MeasureUnitCode ft
VerticalCoordinateReferenceSystemDatumName Unknown
CountryCode US
StateCode 26
CountyCode 053
ProviderName STORET