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USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Physical Daily Values, Unit Values 2015-05-14 2024-11-21
n/a Peak Measurements 2015-06-27 2023-06-26
n/a Site Visits 2015-05-14 2024-11-19
n/a USGS Annual Water Data Reports Site 2015-01-01 2023-01-01
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Monitoring location 01480017 is associated with a Stream in New Castle County, Delaware. Current conditions of Discharge, Gage height, and Stream water level elevation above NAVD 1988 are available. Water data back to 2015 are available online.

LOCATION.-- On right bank at upstream side of highway bridge on Robert W. Kirkwood Highway (State Route 2), at Marshallton, and 1.62 mi upstream from mouth. PERIOD OF RECORD.-- May 2015 to current year. Prior to August 20, 2020, site known as RED CLAY CREEK TRIBUTARY AT MARSHALLTON, DE. GAGE.-- Water-stage recorder and crest stage gage. Datum of gage is 40.07 ft above North American Vertical Datum of 1988.
Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
01480017 n/a
Site name
CALF RUN AT MARSHALLTON, DE n/a
Site type
Stream
ST
DMS latitude 394338.7 n/a
DMS longitude 0753906.7 n/a
Decimal latitude 39.72741667 n/a
Decimal longitude -75.6518611 n/a
Latitude-longitude method
Interpolated from Digital MAP. N
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
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 40.07 feet n/a
Method altitude determined GNSS3 - Level 3 Quality Survey Grade Global Navigation Satellite System Y
Altitude accuracy .07 feet n/a
Altitude datum
North American Vertical Datum of 1988 NAVD88
Subbasin hydrologic unit
Brandywine-Christina 02040205
Drainage basin
n/a
Topographic setting
Stream channel
C
Flags for instruments at site YNNNYNYNNYNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN n/a
Date of first construction
n/a
Date site established or inventoried n/a
Drainage area
0.89 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 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 00100 n/a

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