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USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Physical Daily Values, Unit Values 2016-09-06 2024-11-20
n/a USGS Annual Water Data Reports Site 2016-01-01 2022-01-01
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 01474501 is associated with a Stream in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. Current conditions of Gage height and Stream water level elevation above NAVD 1988 are available. Water data back to 2016 are available online.

Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
01474501 n/a
Site name
Schuylkill River near 30th St at Philadelphia, PA n/a
Site type
Stream
ST
DMS latitude 395723.9 n/a
DMS longitude 0751049.1 n/a
Decimal latitude 39.95663889 n/a
Decimal longitude -75.1803056 n/a
Latitude-longitude method
Mapping grade GPS unit (handheld accuracy range 12 to 40 ft) G
Latitude-longitude accuracy
Accurate to + or - 1 sec. S
Latitude-longitude datum
North American Datum of 1983 NAD83
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, PA n/a
Scale of location map 24000 n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface 0. feet n/a
Method altitude determined Differentially corrected Global Positioning System. D
Altitude accuracy 0.1 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 YNNNYNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN n/a
Date of first construction
n/a
Date site established or inventoried 20151118 n/a
Drainage area
1890 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 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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