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Leading Creek At MP 5.9 (WVDEP_WQX-16428) site data in the Water Quality Portal

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This river/stream site, maintained by the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection-Division of Water & Waste Management-Watershed Assessment Branch (identifier WVDEP_WQX), has the name "Leading Creek At MP 5.9" and has the identifier WVDEP_WQX-16428. This site is in the watershed defined by the 8 digit Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC)05030203. This site has a drainage area of 2408.2048 ac.

This site is located in Calhoun County County, West Virginia at 39.0102500000 degrees latitude and -81.1378333300 degrees longitude using the datum NAD83. The horizontal location collection method was "GPS-Unspecified" and the accuracy is 9 ft. This site is at an elevation of 729.4086 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 "WVDEP_WQX-16428" 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.

Leaflet USGS The National Map: National Boundaries Dataset, 3DEP Elevation Program, Geographic Names Information System, National Hydrography Dataset, National Land Cover Database, National Structures Dataset, and National Transportation Dataset; USGS Global Ecosystems; U.S. Census Bureau TIGER/Line data; USFS Road data; Natural Earth Data; U.S. Department of State HIU; NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. Data refreshed February, 2025.

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, Fish 2019 - 2019
Information 2019 - 2019
Inorganics, Major, Metals 2020 - 2020
Inorganics, Major, Non-metals 2020 - 2020
Inorganics, Minor, Metals 2020 - 2020
Microbiological 2020 - 2020
Organics, Other 2019 - 2020
Physical 2019 - 2020
Physical, Habitat 2019 - 2019
Sediment 2019 - 2019
*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 WVDEP_WQX
OrganizationFormalName West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection-Division of Water & Waste Management-Watershed Assessment Branch
MonitoringLocationIdentifier WVDEP_WQX-16428
MonitoringLocationName Leading Creek At MP 5.9
MonitoringLocationTypeName River/Stream
MonitoringLocationDescriptionText Upstream Cole Run in Freed; On the MacFarlan USGS 24k topo quadrangle
HUCEightDigitCode 05030203
DrainageAreaMeasure/MeasureValue 2408.2048
DrainageAreaMeasure/MeasureUnitCode ac
LatitudeMeasure 39.0102500000
LongitudeMeasure -81.1378333300
HorizontalAccuracyMeasure/MeasureValue 9
HorizontalAccuracyMeasure/MeasureUnitCode ft
HorizontalCollectionMethodName GPS-Unspecified
HorizontalCoordinateReferenceSystemDatumName NAD83
VerticalMeasure/MeasureValue 729.4086
VerticalMeasure/MeasureUnitCode ft
VerticalCollectionMethodName Digital Elevation Model
VerticalCoordinateReferenceSystemDatumName OTHER
CountryCode US
StateCode 54
CountyCode 013
ProviderName STORET