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Important Legacy real-time page

USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Information Water-quality 1997-08-22 2013-05-14
Inorganics, Major, Non-metals Daily Values, Unit Values, Water-quality 1970-02-11 2024-11-21
Physical Daily Values, Unit Values, Water-quality 1963-10-03 2024-11-21
n/a USGS Annual Water Data Reports Site 2006-01-01 2022-01-01
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 01482800 is associated with an Estuary in New Castle County, Delaware. Current conditions of Dissolved oxygen, Specific conductance, Temperature, and more are available. Water data back to 1963 are available online.

Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
01482800 n/a
Site name
Delaware River at Reedy Island Jetty, DE n/a
Site type
Estuary
ES
DMS latitude 393003 n/a
DMS longitude 0753407 n/a
Decimal latitude 39.5009454 n/a
Decimal longitude -75.5682589 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
Delaware 10
County
New Castle County 003
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 n/a
Method altitude determined n/a
Altitude accuracy n/a
Altitude datum
n/a
Subbasin hydrologic unit
Brandywine-Christina 02040205
Drainage basin
n/a
Topographic setting
n/a
Flags for instruments at site YNNNYNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN n/a
Date of first construction
n/a
Date site established or inventoried 19870121 n/a
Drainage area
11200 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

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