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Sunset Bay State Park Beach at the mouth of Big Creek (21ORBCH-29315-ORDEQ) site data in the Water Quality Portal

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

This beach program site-ocean site, maintained by the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (identifier 21ORBCH), has the name "Sunset Bay State Park Beach at the mouth of Big Creek" and has the identifier 21ORBCH-29315-ORDEQ. This site is in the watershed defined by the 8 digit Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC)17100304.

This site is located in Coos County County, Oregon at 43.3323321100 degrees latitude and -124.3751397000 degrees longitude using the datum NAD83. 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 "21ORBCH-29315-ORDEQ" 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*
Microbiological 2018 - 2024
Organics, Pesticide 2018 - 2018
Physical 2018 - 2024
*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 21ORBCH
OrganizationFormalName Oregon Department of Environmental Quality
MonitoringLocationIdentifier 21ORBCH-29315-ORDEQ
MonitoringLocationName Sunset Bay State Park Beach at the mouth of Big Creek
MonitoringLocationTypeName BEACH Program Site-Ocean
HUCEightDigitCode 17100304
LatitudeMeasure 43.3323321100
LongitudeMeasure -124.3751397000
SourceMapScaleNumeric 24000
HorizontalCollectionMethodName Interpolation-Digital Map Source
HorizontalCoordinateReferenceSystemDatumName NAD83
CountryCode US
StateCode 41
CountyCode 011
ProviderName STORET