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USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Physical Daily Values, Unit Values 2012-04-05 2024-11-21
n/a USGS Annual Water Data Reports Site 2012-01-01 2023-01-01
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Monitoring location 01482170 is associated with a Tidal stream in New Castle County, Delaware. Current conditions of Gage height and Stream water level elevation above NAVD 1988 are available. Water data back to 2012 are available online.

LOCATION.-- At mouth of Army Creek, on river side of tidal gate. PERIOD OF RECORD.-- April 2012 to current year. GAGE.-- Water-stage recorder. Datum of gage is 0.00 ft above North American Vertical Datum of 1988. Prior to July 10, 2019, at site 1.4 mi northeast from current location, on right bank at end of pier in Battery Park, 250 ft downstream from end of Delaware Ave. REMARKS.--This is a tidal station. Discharge is not determined at this location.
Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
01482170 n/a
Site name
DELAWARE RIVER AT NEW CASTLE, DE n/a
Site type
Tidal stream
ST-TS
DMS latitude 393905.0 n/a
DMS longitude 0753512.7 n/a
Decimal latitude 39.65138889 n/a
Decimal longitude -75.5868611 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 WILMINGTON SOUTH, DE n/a
Scale of location map 24000 n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface 0.00 feet n/a
Method altitude determined Level or other surveyed method. L
Altitude accuracy .01 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 YNNNYNNYNYNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN n/a
Date of first construction
n/a
Date site established or inventoried 20120320 n/a
Drainage area
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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