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USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Physical Daily Values, Unit Values 2020-03-11 2024-11-21
n/a USGS Annual Water Data Reports Site 2020-01-01 2023-01-01
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Monitoring location 01483158 is associated with a Tidal stream in New Castle County, Delaware. Current conditions of Estuary or ocean water surface elevation above NAVD 1988 are available. Water data back to 2020 are available online.

LOCATION.-- On left bank 100 ft upstream from bridge on State Route 299 in Odessa, about 2.4 mi upstream from confluence with Drawyer Creek, and about 6.4 mi upstream from mouth. PERIOD OF RECORD.-- November 1993 to September 1994; March 2020 to current year. GAGE.-- Water-stage recorder. Datum of gage is 0.00 ft above North American Vertical Datum of 1988. Prior to March 2020, datum of gage is 0.00 ft above National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929, 0.76 ft higher than the present datum. 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
01483158 n/a
Site name
APPOQUINIMINK RIVER AT ODESSA, DE n/a
Site type
Tidal stream
ST-TS
DMS latitude 392709 n/a
DMS longitude 0753919 n/a
Decimal latitude 39.4525 n/a
Decimal longitude -75.65527778 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 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 MIDDLETOWN, DE n/a
Scale of location map 24000 n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface 0 feet n/a
Method altitude determined GNSS3 - Level 3 Quality Survey Grade Global Navigation Satellite System Y
Altitude accuracy .05 feet n/a
Altitude datum
North American Vertical Datum of 1988 NAVD88
Subbasin hydrologic unit
Brandywine-Christina 02040205
Drainage basin
n/a
Topographic setting
Flat surface
F
Flags for instruments at site YNNNYNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN n/a
Date of first construction
n/a
Date site established or inventoried 19921101 n/a
Drainage area
20.9 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 441000100 n/a

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