East Branch Brandywine Creek below Downingtown, PA

Important information about this monitoring location

Flow regulated since November 1973 by Marsh Creek Reservoir (station 01480684), about 7.5 mi upstream. Select water-quality data collection discontinued during winter months since the 1981 water year.

Location details and information

Metadata Element	Location Metadata	Metadata Code
Agency	U.S. Geological Survey	USGS
Site identification number	01480870	_n/a
Site name	East Branch Brandywine Creek below Downingtown, PA	_n/a
Site type	Stream	ST
DMS latitude	395807	_n/a
DMS longitude	0754025	_n/a
Decimal latitude	39.9687191	_n/a
Decimal longitude	-75.6732715	_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	Chester County	029
Country	US	_n/a
Land net location description		_n/a
Name of location map		_n/a
Scale of location map		_n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface	195 feet	_n/a
Method altitude determined	Interpolated from topographic map.	M
Altitude accuracy	10 feet	_n/a
Altitude datum	National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929	NGVD29
Subbasin hydrologic unit	Brandywine-Christina	02040205
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		_n/a
Drainage area	89.9 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:

Chester County Water Resources Authority

USGS - Cooperative Matching Funds

USGS - Federal Priority Streamgages