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Pajaro River at Chittenden Gap (CEDEN-305CHI) site data in the Water Quality Portal

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This river/stream site, maintained by the California State Water Resources Control Board (identifier CEDEN), has the name "Pajaro River at Chittenden Gap" and has the identifier CEDEN-305CHI. This site is in the watershed defined by the 8 digit Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC)18060002.

This site is located in San Benito County County, California at 36.9003000000 degrees latitude and -121.5960000000 degrees longitude using the datum NAD83. 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 "CEDEN-305CHI" 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.

Leaflet USGS The National Map: National Boundaries Dataset, 3DEP Elevation Program, Geographic Names Information System, National Hydrography Dataset, National Land Cover Database, National Structures Dataset, and National Transportation Dataset; USGS Global Ecosystems; U.S. Census Bureau TIGER/Line data; USFS Road data; Natural Earth Data; U.S. Department of State HIU; NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. Data refreshed February, 2025.

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*
Biological, Algae, Phytoplankton, Photosynthetic Pigments 1998 - 2019
Biological, Counts 2006 - 2011
Information 2010 - 2018
Inorganics, Major, Metals 2005 - 2017
Inorganics, Major, Non-metals 2005 - 2017
Inorganics, Minor, Metals 2011 - 2018
Inorganics, Minor, Non-metals 2005 - 2018
Not Assigned 2014 - 2014
Nutrient 1997 - 2019
Organics, Other 2011 - 2018
Organics, Pesticide 2014 - 2018
Physical 1997 - 2022
*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 CEDEN
OrganizationFormalName California State Water Resources Control Board
MonitoringLocationIdentifier CEDEN-305CHI
MonitoringLocationName Pajaro River at Chittenden Gap
MonitoringLocationTypeName River/Stream
HUCEightDigitCode 18060002
LatitudeMeasure 36.9003000000
LongitudeMeasure -121.5960000000
HorizontalCollectionMethodName Unknown
HorizontalCoordinateReferenceSystemDatumName NAD83
VerticalMeasure/MeasureValue 0
VerticalMeasure/MeasureUnitCode ft
VerticalCollectionMethodName Other
VerticalCoordinateReferenceSystemDatumName UNKWN
CountryCode US
StateCode 06
CountyCode 069
ProviderName STORET