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WQP Home >  Providers >  STORET >  21NYDECA_WQX >  21NYDECA_WQX-GSL07

Great Sacanadaga Lake (21NYDECA_WQX-GSL07) site data in the Water Quality Portal

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

This lake site, maintained by the New York State Dec Division Of Water (identifier 21NYDECA_WQX), has the name "Great Sacanadaga Lake" and has the identifier 21NYDECA_WQX-GSL07. This site is in the watershed defined by the 8 digit Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC)02020002.

This site is located in Saratoga County County, New York at 43.2685500000 degrees latitude and -74.0550300000 degrees longitude using the datum WGS84. No horizontal location accuracy metadata is available. This site is at an elevation of 235. m 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 "21NYDECA_WQX-GSL07" 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, Minor, Metals 2007 - 2007
Inorganics, Minor, Non-metals 2007 - 2007
Nutrient 2007 - 2007
Organics, Other 2007 - 2007
Organics, PCBs 2007 - 2007
Organics, Pesticide 2007 - 2007
Physical 2007 - 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 21NYDECA_WQX
OrganizationFormalName New York State Dec Division Of Water
MonitoringLocationIdentifier 21NYDECA_WQX-GSL07
MonitoringLocationName Great Sacanadaga Lake
MonitoringLocationTypeName Lake
MonitoringLocationDescriptionText Near State Boat Launch
HUCEightDigitCode 02020002
LatitudeMeasure 43.2685500000
LongitudeMeasure -74.0550300000
HorizontalCollectionMethodName GPS-Unspecified
HorizontalCoordinateReferenceSystemDatumName WGS84
VerticalMeasure/MeasureValue 235.
VerticalMeasure/MeasureUnitCode m
VerticalCollectionMethodName Topographic Map Interpolation
VerticalCoordinateReferenceSystemDatumName SEALV
CountryCode US
StateCode 36
CountyCode 091
ProviderName STORET