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WQP Home >  Providers >  STORET >  WEARTH_WQX >  WEARTH_WQX-03-0085-00-207

BAD MEDICINE (WEARTH_WQX-03-0085-00-207) site data in the Water Quality Portal

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

This lake site, maintained by the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, Minnesota (White Earth Band) (Tribal) (identifier WEARTH_WQX), has the name "BAD MEDICINE" and has the identifier WEARTH_WQX-03-0085-00-207. This site is in the watershed defined by the 8 digit Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC)07010106.

This site is located in Becker County County, Minnesota at 47.1273680000 degrees latitude and -95.4004350000 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 "WEARTH_WQX-03-0085-00-207" 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*
Biological, Algae, Phytoplankton, Photosynthetic Pigments 2018 - 2018
Information 2014 - 2018
Nutrient 2018 - 2018
Physical 2014 - 2018
*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 WEARTH_WQX
OrganizationFormalName Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, Minnesota (White Earth Band) (Tribal)
MonitoringLocationIdentifier WEARTH_WQX-03-0085-00-207
MonitoringLocationName BAD MEDICINE
MonitoringLocationTypeName Lake
MonitoringLocationDescriptionText 11 MI N OF PONSFORD. LKMAP: B403. QUAD1: LONG LOST LAKE. AREA: 316.5 HECTARE B. BASIN CODE: 070307. MEAN DEPTH: 10.11 M. MAX DEPTH: 24.4 M.
HUCEightDigitCode 07010106
LatitudeMeasure 47.1273680000
LongitudeMeasure -95.4004350000
SourceMapScaleNumeric 24000
HorizontalCollectionMethodName Interpolation-Map
HorizontalCoordinateReferenceSystemDatumName NAD83
CountryCode US
StateCode 27
CountyCode 005
ProviderName STORET