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USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Physical Daily Values, Unit Values 2007-10-01 2024-11-21
n/a USGS Annual Water Data Reports Site 2006-01-01 2023-01-01
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 01447780 is associated with a Lake, Reservoir, Impoundment in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. Current conditions of Elevation of reservoir water surface above datum and Precipitation are available. Water data back to 2006 are available online.

Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
01447780 n/a
Site name
Francis E. Walter Reservoir near White Haven, PA n/a
Site type
Lake, Reservoir, Impoundment
LK
DMS latitude 410645 n/a
DMS longitude 0754315 n/a
Decimal latitude 41.112584 n/a
Decimal longitude -75.7204693 n/a
Latitude-longitude method
Interpolated from MAP. M
Latitude-longitude accuracy
Accurate to + or - 1 sec. S
Latitude-longitude datum
North American Datum of 1927 NAD27
Decimal Latitude-longitude datum North American Datum of 1983 NAD83
District
Pennsylvania 42
State
Pennsylvania 42
County
Luzerne County 079
Country US n/a
Land net location description n/a
Name of location map n/a
Scale of location map n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface 1265. feet n/a
Method altitude determined Interpolated from topographic map. M
Altitude accuracy 5 feet n/a
Altitude datum
National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929 NGVD29
Subbasin hydrologic unit
Lehigh 02040106
Drainage basin
n/a
Topographic setting
n/a
Flags for instruments at site NNNNYNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN n/a
Date of first construction
n/a
Date site established or inventoried 196102 n/a
Drainage area
289 square miles n/a
Contributing drainage area 289 square miles n/a
Time Zone abbreviation EST n/a
Site honors Daylight Saving Time
Y n/a
Data reliability
n/a
Data-other GW files NNNNNNNN n/a
National aquifer n/a
Local aquifer n/a
Local aquifer type
n/a
Well depth n/a
Hole depth
n/a
Source of depth data n/a
Project number n/a

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