Pohopoco Cr bl Beltzville Dam nr Parryville, PA - 01449800

Important information about this monitoring location

Flow regulated for entire period of record by Wild Creek Reservoir, Penn Forest Reservoir, and Beltzville Lake. Diversion upstream from Tunhannock Creek to Wild Creek Basin since October 1969.

Location details and information

Metadata Element	Location Metadata	Metadata Code
Agency	U.S. Geological Survey	USGS
Site identification number	01449800	_n/a
Site name	Pohopoco Cr bl Beltzville Dam nr Parryville, PA	_n/a
Site type	Stream	ST
DMS latitude	405044	_n/a
DMS longitude	0753846	_n/a
Decimal latitude	40.84564756	_n/a
Decimal longitude	-75.6457437	_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	Carbon County	025
Country	US	_n/a
Land net location description		_n/a
Name of location map	LEHIGHTON	_n/a
Scale of location map	24000	_n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface	491.4 feet	_n/a
Method altitude determined	GNSS2 - Level 2 Quality Survey Grade Global Navigation Satellite System	X
Altitude accuracy	.04 feet	_n/a
Altitude datum	North American Vertical Datum of 1988	NAVD88
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	196710	_n/a
Drainage area	96.4 square miles	_n/a
Contributing drainage area		_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

Operated in cooperation with:

Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, Bureau of Safe Drinking Water

US Army Corps of Engineers - Philadelphia District

USGS - Cooperative Matching Funds