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Long Island regional groundwater-level site metadata

LI_sites.Rd

Site metadata for select wells on Long Island and surrounding mainland sites in New York and Connecticut. Location data downloaded from U.S. Geological Survey National Water Information System.

Usage

LI_sites

Format

Data frame with four columns and 476 rows

site_no

United States Geological Survey station number (unique site identifier) formatted as character string.

latitude

Site latitude in decimal degrees referenced to The North American Datum of 1983 (NAD83, EPSG:4269) formatted as numeric.

longitude

Site longitude in decimal degrees referenced to The North American Datum of 1983 (NAD83, EPSG:4269) formatted as numeric.

group

Grouping field describing general location of site as either "Long_Island" if located in Long Island, New York or "Mainland" for additional sites in New York and Connecticut.

References

U.S. Geological Survey, 2024, National Water Information System data available on the World Wide Web (USGS Water Data for the Nation), accessed February 12, 2024, at http://dx.doi.org/10.5066/F7P55KJN.

Examples

  head(LI_sites) 
#>           site_no latitude longitude       group
#> 1 403442073575401 40.57872 -73.96486 Long_Island
#> 2 403444073575601 40.57899 -73.96514 Long_Island
#> 3 403517073430702 40.58806 -73.71792 Long_Island
#> 4 403517073430705 40.58803 -73.71794 Long_Island
#> 5 403520073575501 40.58899 -73.96486 Long_Island
#> 6 403522073371903 40.58955 -73.62152 Long_Island