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Natividad Creek upstream from Salinas Reclamation Canal (CEDEN-309NAD) site data in the Water Quality Portal

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

This river/stream site, maintained by the California State Water Resources Control Board (identifier CEDEN), has the name "Natividad Creek upstream from Salinas Reclamation Canal" and has the identifier CEDEN-309NAD. This site is in the watershed defined by the 8 digit Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC)18060015.

This site is located in Monterey County County, California at 36.7081000000 degrees latitude and -121.6000000000 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 "CEDEN-309NAD" 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*
Biological, Algae, Phytoplankton, Photosynthetic Pigments 2012 - 2019
Biological, Counts 2005 - 2009
Information 2014 - 2018
Inorganics, Major, Metals 2019 - 2022
Inorganics, Minor, Metals 2011 - 2022
Inorganics, Minor, Non-metals 2014 - 2018
Not Assigned 2014 - 2014
Nutrient 2005 - 2019
Organics, Other 2011 - 2018
Organics, PCBs 2019 - 2019
Organics, Pesticide 2006 - 2019
Physical 2005 - 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-309NAD
MonitoringLocationName Natividad Creek upstream from Salinas Reclamation Canal
MonitoringLocationTypeName River/Stream
HUCEightDigitCode 18060015
LatitudeMeasure 36.7081000000
LongitudeMeasure -121.6000000000
HorizontalCollectionMethodName Unknown
HorizontalCoordinateReferenceSystemDatumName NAD83
CountryCode US
StateCode 06
CountyCode 053
ProviderName STORET