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WQP Home >  Providers >  STORET >  UWP >  UWP-GB-03

Governor Basin drainage below Virginius Mine (UWP-GB-03) 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 Uncompahgre Watershed Partnership (Volunteer)* (identifier UWP), has the name "Governor Basin drainage below Virginius Mine" and has the identifier UWP-GB-03. This site is in the watershed defined by the 8 digit Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC)14020006.

This site is located in Ouray County County, Colorado at 37.9705300000 degrees latitude and -107.7759600000 degrees longitude using the datum WGS84. No horizontal location accuracy metadata is available. This site is at an elevation of 11950 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 "UWP-GB-03" 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*
Inorganics, Major, Metals 2017 - 2017
Inorganics, Major, Non-metals 2017 - 2017
Inorganics, Minor, Metals 2017 - 2017
Inorganics, Minor, Non-metals 2017 - 2017
Physical 2017 - 2017
Radiochemical 2017 - 2017
*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 UWP
OrganizationFormalName Uncompahgre Watershed Partnership (Volunteer)*
MonitoringLocationIdentifier UWP-GB-03
MonitoringLocationName Governor Basin drainage below Virginius Mine
MonitoringLocationTypeName River/Stream
MonitoringLocationDescriptionText Governor Basin Creek (drainage) below Virginius Mine
HUCEightDigitCode 14020006
LatitudeMeasure 37.9705300000
LongitudeMeasure -107.7759600000
HorizontalCollectionMethodName GPS-Unspecified
HorizontalCoordinateReferenceSystemDatumName WGS84
VerticalMeasure/MeasureValue 11950
VerticalMeasure/MeasureUnitCode ft
VerticalCollectionMethodName Topographic Map Interpolation
VerticalCoordinateReferenceSystemDatumName OTHER
CountryCode US
StateCode 08
CountyCode 091
ProviderName STORET