A missing USGS station

[cheginit]

The following USGS station is not indexed:

ID: 04127918
nhdplusv2 comid: 12206226
nhdplusv2 reachcode: 04070002000042

[cheginit]

I found two other stations:

ID: 02084557
nhdplusv2 comid: 1967611
nhdplusv2 reachcode: 03020104000870

ID: 10172200
nhdplusv2 comid: 10389446
nhdplusv2 reachcode: 16020204000450

[dblodgett-usgs]

Are you sure about those last two? I don't have time to dig into things (and I found a bug I need to fix) but it seems like they are not really in the vicinity of the gage. Maybe I'm not looking at things right.

[cheginit]

These are the flowline-station distances in meters:

I used NLDI's position endpoint to get the nearest comid. The last two sound far from the stations.

[dblodgett-usgs]

OK -- yeah, that's what I'm seeing.

So it seems like there just is no flowline for the two that are far away?

[cheginit]

No, there's no nearby flowline in nhdplus mr, but there are in nhdplus hr:

[dblodgett-usgs]

OK, re: the one you found missing, I found the issue. It was superseded by 04127917 -- but the record wasn't combined. In my source of network locations that is the highest quality, they dropped 04127918. I will bring these cases back in our next release of locations to the NLDI.

[dblodgett-usgs]

Regarding the ones that are far from a medium res flowline -- I don't think we should put those into the NLDI as indexed gages. We don't currently have a hybrid approach though. I just opened internetofwater/nldi-crawler#126 to track the issue.

[dblodgett-usgs]

FYI -- @cheginit the site that was the original source of this issue has been fixed. https://labs.waterdata.usgs.gov/api/nldi/linked-data/nwissite/USGS-04127918?f=json

[cheginit]

That's great! Thanks.