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East Branch Brandywine Creek below Downingtown, PA

Important Legacy real-time page

Monitoring location 01480870 is associated with a STREAM in CHESTER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA. Current conditions of DISCHARGE, DISSOLVED OXYGEN, GAGE HEIGHT, and MORE are available. Water data back to 1971 are available online.

USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Biological Water-quality 2005-08-23 2005-08-23
Information Water-quality 1978-07-03 2022-04-07
Inorganics, Major, Metals Water-quality 1998-10-13 2021-12-03
Inorganics, Major, Non-metals Daily Values, Unit Values, Water-quality 1972-02-01 2022-08-19
Inorganics, Minor, Non-metals Water-quality 1980-08-12 2021-12-03
Inorganics, Minor, metals Water-quality 1980-08-12 2021-12-03
Microbiological Water-quality 1978-01-30 2022-08-04
Nutrient Water-quality 1980-08-12 2021-12-03
Organics, PCBs Water-quality 1981-09-08 1981-09-08
Organics, other Water-quality 1978-01-30 2009-07-17
Organics, pesticide Water-quality 1981-09-08 2009-07-17
Physical Daily Values, Unit Values, Water-quality 1972-02-01 2022-08-19
Sediment Daily Values, Unit Values, Water-quality 1980-08-12 2022-08-19
n/a Peak Measurements 1972-06-22 2020-08-04
n/a Site Visits 1971-02-14 2022-08-10
n/a USGS Annual Water Data Reports Site 2006-01-01 2021-01-01
Water Data for the Nation inventory

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.
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 n/a
Method altitude determined Interpolated from topographic map. M
Altitude accuracy 10 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 n/a
Contributing drainage area n/a
Time Zone abbreviation EST n/a
Site honors Daylight Savings 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

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