Schuylkill River at Philadelphia, PA - 01474500

Important information about this monitoring location

Calibration of specific conductance, dissolved oxygen, and pH 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. The 30-minute precipitation data for this station are temporary and will only be displayed for 120 days. Time series of 1-hour or cumulative daily values will NOT be available for retrieval following the 120-day display period. Although the instrumentation is calibrated at least once a year, the temporary classification means that documented routine inspections and other quality assurance measures are not performed that would make the data acceptable for archival, retrieval, or future use in general scientific or interpretive studies.

Location details and information

Metadata Element	Location Metadata	Metadata Code
Agency	U.S. Geological Survey	USGS
Site identification number	01474500	_n/a
Site name	Schuylkill River at Philadelphia, PA	_n/a
Site type	Stream	ST
DMS latitude	395804	_n/a
DMS longitude	0751120	_n/a
Decimal latitude	39.9677908	_n/a
Decimal longitude	-75.1885007	_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	PHILADELPHIA QUAD	_n/a
Scale of location map	24000	_n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface	4.54 feet	_n/a
Method altitude determined	Level or other surveyed method.	L
Altitude accuracy	.08 feet	_n/a
Altitude datum	North American Vertical Datum of 1988	NAVD88
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	19310901	_n/a
Drainage area	1893 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:

City of Philadelphia Water Department

US Army Corps of Engineers - Philadelphia District

USGS - Federal Priority Streamgages

USGS - Next Generation Water Observing System