Christina River at Wilmington, DE

Important information about this monitoring location

LOCATION.-- On left bank of Christina River, on bulkhead at City of Wilmington Fire Station Number 7, 300 ft downstream of highway bridge (Christina Ave.), 0.7 mi upstream of Brandywine Creek, and 2.5 mi upstream of mouth. PERIOD OF RECORD.-- April 2006 to current year. GAGE.-- Water-stage recorder. Datum of gage is 0.00 ft above North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD88). From October 1, 2015 to December 27, 2021, datum of gage was -0.16 ft above NAVD88. From April 11, 2006 to September 30, 2015, datum of gage was 0.00 ft above National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929, and -1.12 ft above NAVD88. PERIOD OF RECORD (Water Quality).--November 2021 to current year.

Location details and information

Metadata Element	Location Metadata	Metadata Code
Agency	U.S. Geological Survey	USGS
Site identification number	01480120	_n/a
Site name	CHRISTINA RIVER AT WILMINGTON, DE	_n/a
Site type	Tidal stream	ST-TS
DMS latitude	394409.9	_n/a
DMS longitude	0753226.0	_n/a
Decimal latitude	39.7360833	_n/a
Decimal longitude	-75.5405556	_n/a
Latitude-longitude method	Interpolated from Digital MAP.	N
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	Wilmington South	_n/a
Scale of location map	24000	_n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface	0.00 feet	_n/a
Method altitude determined	GNSS2 - Level 2 Quality Survey Grade Global Navigation Satellite System	X
Altitude accuracy	.12 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	YNNNYNNNNYNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN	_n/a
Date of first construction		_n/a
Date site established or inventoried	20060404	_n/a
Drainage area	237 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	242700151	_n/a

Operated in cooperation with:

Delaware Geological Survey

USGS - Observing Systems Division