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Lake Mendota, Dane County, WI, USA (NALMS-F1569337) site data in the Water Quality Portal

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This lake site, maintained by the North American Lake Management Society (identifier NALMS), has the name "Lake Mendota, Dane County, WI, USA" and has the identifier NALMS-F1569337. This site is in the watershed defined by the 8 digit Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC)07090002.

This site is located in Dane County County, Wisconsin at 43.1050000000 degrees latitude and -89.4200000000 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 "NALMS-F1569337" into the "Site ID" box under Site Parameters

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Upstream and downstream locations

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When were data collected at this location?

Periods of record for data characteristic groups

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Characteristic Group Date Range*
Information 2016 - 2016
Physical 2016 - 2016
*Date ranges may contain gap years

What other information is available for this location?

Detailed Metadata

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Location Metadata Value
OrganizationIdentifier NALMS
OrganizationFormalName North American Lake Management Society
MonitoringLocationIdentifier NALMS-F1569337
MonitoringLocationName Lake Mendota, Dane County, WI, USA
MonitoringLocationTypeName Lake
MonitoringLocationDescriptionText Lake
HUCEightDigitCode 07090002
LatitudeMeasure 43.1050000000
LongitudeMeasure -89.4200000000
HorizontalCollectionMethodName GPS-Unspecified
HorizontalCoordinateReferenceSystemDatumName NAD83
CountryCode US
StateCode 55
CountyCode 025
ProviderName STORET