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Brown County State Lake, Brown County, KS, USA (NALMS-F479871) site data in the Water Quality Portal

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This reservoir site, maintained by the North American Lake Management Society (identifier NALMS), has the name "Brown County State Lake, Brown County, KS, USA" and has the identifier NALMS-F479871. This site is in the watershed defined by the 8 digit Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC)10240005.

This site is located in Brown County County, Kansas at 39.8490000000 degrees latitude and -95.3750000000 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-F479871" 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 2001 - 2001
Physical 2001 - 2001
*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 NALMS
OrganizationFormalName North American Lake Management Society
MonitoringLocationIdentifier NALMS-F479871
MonitoringLocationName Brown County State Lake, Brown County, KS, USA
MonitoringLocationTypeName Reservoir
MonitoringLocationDescriptionText Reservoir
HUCEightDigitCode 10240005
LatitudeMeasure 39.8490000000
LongitudeMeasure -95.3750000000
HorizontalCollectionMethodName GPS-Unspecified
HorizontalCoordinateReferenceSystemDatumName NAD83
CountryCode US
StateCode 20
CountyCode 013
ProviderName STORET