Brandywine Creek at Chadds Ford, PA - 01481000

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April 14, 2025 - April 21, 2025

Gage height, feet

Important Data may be provisional

Latest value

2.04 ft

Provisional

Apr 21, 2025

07:30:00 AM EDT

Selected

2.04 ft

Provisional

Apr 21, 2025

07:30:00 AM EDT

Statistics are not available at this monitoring location for the data type: Gage height, ft

Gage height, feet -- continuous data
Time	Result	Approval
2025-04-21T07:30:00.000-04:00	2.04	Provisional
2025-04-21T07:15:00.000-04:00	2.04	Provisional
2025-04-21T07:00:00.000-04:00	2.04	Provisional
2025-04-21T06:45:00.000-04:00	2.04	Provisional
2025-04-21T06:30:00.000-04:00	2.04	Provisional
2025-04-21T06:15:00.000-04:00	2.04	Provisional
2025-04-21T06:00:00.000-04:00	2.04	Provisional
2025-04-21T05:45:00.000-04:00	2.04	Provisional
2025-04-21T05:30:00.000-04:00	2.05	Provisional
2025-04-21T05:15:00.000-04:00	2.05	Provisional
2025-04-21T05:00:00.000-04:00	2.04	Provisional
2025-04-21T04:45:00.000-04:00	2.04	Provisional
2025-04-21T04:30:00.000-04:00	2.05	Provisional
2025-04-21T04:15:00.000-04:00	2.05	Provisional
2025-04-21T04:00:00.000-04:00	2.05	Provisional
2025-04-21T03:45:00.000-04:00	2.05	Provisional

Important information about this monitoring location

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	01481000	_n/a
Site name	Brandywine Creek at Chadds Ford, PA	_n/a
Site type	Stream	ST
DMS latitude	395211	_n/a
DMS longitude	0753537	_n/a
Decimal latitude	39.8698328	_n/a
Decimal longitude	-75.5932623	_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	Delaware County	045
Country	US	_n/a
Land net location description		_n/a
Name of location map	CHADDS FORD	_n/a
Scale of location map	24000	_n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface	149.7 feet	_n/a
Method altitude determined	GNSS3 - Level 3 Quality Survey Grade Global Navigation Satellite System	Y
Altitude accuracy	.13 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	NNNNYNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN	_n/a
Date of first construction		_n/a
Date site established or inventoried	196210	_n/a
Drainage area	287 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	444230900	_n/a

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