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Mud River At MP 42.3 (WVDEP_WQX-5288) 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 West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection-Division of Water & Waste Management-Watershed Assessment Branch (identifier WVDEP_WQX), has the name "Mud River At MP 42.3" and has the identifier WVDEP_WQX-5288. This site is in the watershed defined by the 8 digit Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC)05070102. This site has a drainage area of 61770.8554 ac.

This site is located in Lincoln County County, West Virginia at 38.2816500000 degrees latitude and -82.0797194400 degrees longitude using the datum NAD83. The horizontal location collection method was "GPS-Unspecified" and the accuracy is 30 ft. This site is at an elevation of 619.053 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-5288" into the "Site ID" box under Site Parameters

What other monitoring locations are upstream or downstream from this one?

Upstream and downstream locations

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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 2017 - 2018
Information 2008 - 2018
Inorganics, Major, Metals 2020 - 2020
Inorganics, Major, Non-metals 2020 - 2020
Organics, Other 2017 - 2018
Physical 2013 - 2020
Physical, Habitat 2013 - 2018
Sediment 2017 - 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 WVDEP_WQX
OrganizationFormalName West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection-Division of Water & Waste Management-Watershed Assessment Branch
MonitoringLocationIdentifier WVDEP_WQX-5288
MonitoringLocationName Mud River At MP 42.3
MonitoringLocationTypeName River/Stream
MonitoringLocationDescriptionText Downstream UNT/Mud River RM 42.39 East of Hamlin; On the Hamlin USGS 24k topo quadrangle
HUCEightDigitCode 05070102
DrainageAreaMeasure/MeasureValue 61770.8554
DrainageAreaMeasure/MeasureUnitCode ac
LatitudeMeasure 38.2816500000
LongitudeMeasure -82.0797194400
HorizontalAccuracyMeasure/MeasureValue 30
HorizontalAccuracyMeasure/MeasureUnitCode ft
HorizontalCollectionMethodName GPS-Unspecified
HorizontalCoordinateReferenceSystemDatumName NAD83
VerticalMeasure/MeasureValue 619.053
VerticalMeasure/MeasureUnitCode ft
VerticalCollectionMethodName Digital Elevation Model
VerticalCoordinateReferenceSystemDatumName OTHER
CountryCode US
StateCode 54
CountyCode 043
ProviderName STORET