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Cottonwood Wash Spring (UTEMTN-Cottonwood Wash Spring) site data in the Water Quality Portal

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

This spring site, maintained by the Ute Mountain Utes Tribe (Colorado) (identifier UTEMTN), has the name "Cottonwood Wash Spring" and has the identifier UTEMTN-Cottonwood Wash Spring. This site is in the watershed defined by the 8 digit Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC)14080107.

This site is located in Montezuma County County, Colorado at 37.2559363900 degrees latitude and -108.7831505600 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 "UTEMTN-Cottonwood Wash Spring" 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 2015 - 2021
Inorganics, Major, Non-metals 2015 - 2021
Inorganics, Minor, Metals 2015 - 2021
Inorganics, Minor, Non-metals 2015 - 2021
Microbiological 2015 - 2018
Nutrient 2015 - 2021
Organics, Other 2021 - 2021
Physical 2015 - 2021
Radiochemical 2015 - 2021
*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 UTEMTN
OrganizationFormalName Ute Mountain Utes Tribe (Colorado)
MonitoringLocationIdentifier UTEMTN-Cottonwood Wash Spring
MonitoringLocationName Cottonwood Wash Spring
MonitoringLocationTypeName Spring
MonitoringLocationDescriptionText Spring emanating in Cottonwood Wash, Sleeping Ute Mountains. Located in channel at split to Sundance and N side of Mtn (last lake, etc turn)
HUCEightDigitCode 14080107
LatitudeMeasure 37.2559363900
LongitudeMeasure -108.7831505600
HorizontalCollectionMethodName GPS-Unspecified
HorizontalCoordinateReferenceSystemDatumName NAD83
CountryCode US
StateCode 08
CountyCode 083
ProviderName STORET