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WQP Home >  Providers >  STORET >  AKDECWQ >  AKDECWQ-BL-50

Big Lake 50 (AKDECWQ-BL-50) site data in the Water Quality Portal

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

This lake site, maintained by the Alaska Dept of Environmental Conservation - Water Quality (identifier AKDECWQ), has the name "Big Lake 50" and has the identifier AKDECWQ-BL-50. This site is in the watershed defined by the 8 digit Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC)19020401.

This site is located in Matanuska-Susitna Borough County, Alaska at 61.5418900000 degrees latitude and -149.8737600000 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 "AKDECWQ-BL-50" 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 2005 - 2005
Microbiological 2005 - 2005
Physical 2005 - 2005
*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 AKDECWQ
OrganizationFormalName Alaska Dept of Environmental Conservation - Water Quality
MonitoringLocationIdentifier AKDECWQ-BL-50
MonitoringLocationName Big Lake 50
MonitoringLocationTypeName Lake
MonitoringLocationDescriptionText Big Lake monitoring location from 2005 WQ monitoring survey.
HUCEightDigitCode 19020401
LatitudeMeasure 61.5418900000
LongitudeMeasure -149.8737600000
HorizontalCollectionMethodName GPS-Unspecified
HorizontalCoordinateReferenceSystemDatumName NAD83
CountryCode US
StateCode 02
CountyCode 170
ProviderName STORET