Tacony Creek ab Adams Avenue, Philadelphia, PA

Important information about this monitoring location

Previously known as "Tacony Creek at County Line at Philadelphia, PA". Calibration of water-quality instrumentation is conducted exclusively by Philadelphia Water Department personnel with USGS oversight. Erroneous or missing data, resulting from instrument malfunction, are not the responsibility of USGS.

Location details and information

Metadata Element	Location Metadata	Metadata Code
Agency	U.S. Geological Survey	USGS
Site identification number	01467086	_n/a
Site name	Tacony Creek ab Adams Avenue, Philadelphia, PA	_n/a
Site type	Stream	ST
DMS latitude	400233	_n/a
DMS longitude	0750645	_n/a
Decimal latitude	40.04261157	_n/a
Decimal longitude	-75.1121191	_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	Philadelphia County	101
Country	US	_n/a
Land net location description		_n/a
Name of location map	FRANKFORD	_n/a
Scale of location map	24000	_n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface	61.11 feet	_n/a
Method altitude determined	Level or other surveyed method.	L
Altitude accuracy	0.1 feet	_n/a
Altitude datum	National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929	NGVD29
Subbasin hydrologic unit	Schuylkill	02040203
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	196510	_n/a
Drainage area	16.7 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	247600121	_n/a

Operated in cooperation with:

City of Philadelphia Water Department

USGS - Cooperative Matching Funds