Pike Creek Near Newark, DE - 01478950

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USGS Parameter Group	Data Types	Start Date	End Date
Physical	Daily Values, Unit Values	2019-10-01	2025-03-02
_n/a	Peak Measurements	1969-07-28	2023-06-26
_n/a	Site Visits	1968-12-23	2024-11-21
_n/a	USGS Annual Water Data Reports Site	2020-01-01	2023-01-01

Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 01478950 is associated with a Stream in New Castle County, Delaware. Current conditions of Discharge, Gage height, Specific conductance, and more are available. Water data back to 1968 are available online.

LOCATION.-- On left bank downstream of highway bridge on Upper Pike Creek Road, 2.7 mi northeast of Newark, and 0.8 mi upstream from mouth. PERIOD OF RECORD.-- Annual maximum, water years 1969-75. October 2019 to current year. GAGE.--Water-stage recorder and crest-stage gage. Datum of gage is 41.61 ft above North American Vertical Datum of 1988. October 2019 to September 2020, datum of gage was published as 49.0 ft above North American Vertical Datum of 1988. November 1968 to September 1975, nonrecording gage at site 0.35 mi downstream, on right upstream wingwall of bridge on State Highway 2, at datum 30.96 ft above National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929. PERIOD OF RECORD (Water Quality).-- October 2019 to current year.

Metadata Element	Location Metadata	Metadata Code
Agency	U.S. Geological Survey	USGS
Site identification number	01478950	_n/a
Site name	PIKE CREEK NEAR NEWARK, DE	_n/a
Site type	Stream	ST
DMS latitude	394224.8	_n/a
DMS longitude	0754142.3	_n/a
Decimal latitude	39.70688889	_n/a
Decimal longitude	-75.6950833	_n/a
Latitude-longitude method	GNSS3 - Level 3 Quality Survey Grade Global Navigation Satellite System	Y
Latitude-longitude accuracy	Accurate to + or - .1 sec (Differentially-Corrected GPS).	1
Latitude-longitude datum	North American Datum of 1983	NAD83
Decimal Latitude-longitude datum	North American Datum of 1983	NAD83
District	Maryland	24
State	Delaware	10
County	New Castle County	003
Country	US	_n/a
Land net location description		_n/a
Name of location map	NEWARK EAST, DE	_n/a
Scale of location map	24000	_n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface	41.61 feet	_n/a
Method altitude determined	GNSS3 - Level 3 Quality Survey Grade Global Navigation Satellite System	Y
Altitude accuracy	.16 feet	_n/a
Altitude datum	North American Vertical Datum of 1988	NAVD88
Subbasin hydrologic unit	Brandywine-Christina	02040205
Drainage basin		_n/a
Topographic setting		_n/a
Flags for instruments at site	YNNNYNYNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN	_n/a
Date of first construction		_n/a
Date site established or inventoried		_n/a
Drainage area	5.89 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	441000100	_n/a

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