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Santa Ynez River at Highway 246 (CEDEN-314SYL) 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 "Santa Ynez River at Highway 246" and has the identifier CEDEN-314SYL. This site is in the watershed defined by the 8 digit Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC)18060010.

This site is located in Santa Barbara County County, California at 34.6439000000 degrees latitude and -120.4300000000 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-314SYL" 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 2001 - 2012
Biological, Counts 2001 - 2011
Information 2002 - 2017
Inorganics, Major, Metals 2001 - 2008
Inorganics, Major, Non-metals 2001 - 2020
Inorganics, Minor, Metals 2013 - 2017
Inorganics, Minor, Non-metals 2001 - 2020
Not Assigned 2013 - 2013
Nutrient 2001 - 2020
Organics, Other 2002 - 2017
Organics, Pesticide 2013 - 2013
Physical 2001 - 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-314SYL
MonitoringLocationName Santa Ynez River at Highway 246
MonitoringLocationTypeName River/Stream
HUCEightDigitCode 18060010
LatitudeMeasure 34.6439000000
LongitudeMeasure -120.4300000000
HorizontalCollectionMethodName Unknown
HorizontalCoordinateReferenceSystemDatumName NAD83
CountryCode US
StateCode 06
CountyCode 083
ProviderName STORET