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WQP Home >  Providers >  STORET >  RITA6 >  RITA6-10698

west of tupelo / north of florida (RITA6-10698) site data in the Water Quality Portal

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

This floodwater urban site, maintained by the Hurricane Rita Emergency Response Monitoring (identifier RITA6), has the name "west of tupelo / north of florida" and has the identifier RITA6-10698. This site is in the watershed defined by the 8 digit Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC)08090203.

This site is located in Orleans Parish County, Louisiana at 29.9756780 degrees latitude and -90.0042160 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 "RITA6-10698" into the "Site ID" box under Site Parameters

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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*
Inorganics, Major, Metals 2005 - 2005
Inorganics, Minor, Metals 2005 - 2005
Inorganics, Minor, Non-metals 2005 - 2005
Microbiological 2005 - 2005
Nutrient 2005 - 2005
Organics, Other 2005 - 2005
Organics, PCBs 2005 - 2005
Organics, Pesticide 2005 - 2005
*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 RITA6
OrganizationFormalName Hurricane Rita Emergency Response Monitoring
MonitoringLocationIdentifier RITA6-10698
MonitoringLocationName west of tupelo / north of florida
MonitoringLocationTypeName Floodwater Urban
MonitoringLocationDescriptionText ID: T0429-051012-02 Desc: west of tupelo / north of florida
HUCEightDigitCode 08090203
LatitudeMeasure 29.9756780
LongitudeMeasure -90.0042160
HorizontalCollectionMethodName GPS-Unspecified
HorizontalCoordinateReferenceSystemDatumName NAD83
VerticalMeasure/MeasureValue 0
VerticalMeasure/MeasureUnitCode ft
VerticalCoordinateReferenceSystemDatumName Unknown
CountryCode US
StateCode 22
CountyCode 071
ProviderName STORET