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USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Physical Daily Values, Unit Values 2005-10-01 2024-11-18
n/a USGS Annual Water Data Reports Site 2006-01-01 2023-01-01
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 01484701 is associated with an Estuary in Sussex County, Delaware. Current conditions of Estuary or ocean water surface elevation above NAVD 1988 are available. Water data back to 2005 are available online.

Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
01484701 n/a
Site name
LITTLE ASSAWOMAN BAY AT FENWICK ISLAND, DE n/a
Site type
Estuary
ES
DMS latitude 382717.9 n/a
DMS longitude 0750330.0 n/a
Decimal latitude 38.4549722 n/a
Decimal longitude -75.0583333 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
Sussex County 005
Country US n/a
Land net location description n/a
Name of location map ASSAWOMAN BAY, MD-DE n/a
Scale of location map 24000 n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface 0.00 feet n/a
Method altitude determined Interpolated from Digital Elevation Model N
Altitude accuracy .1 feet n/a
Altitude datum
North American Vertical Datum of 1988 NAVD88
Subbasin hydrologic unit
Chincoteague 02040303
Drainage basin
n/a
Topographic setting
n/a
Flags for instruments at site NNYNYNYYNNYNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN n/a
Date of first construction
n/a
Date site established or inventoried 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 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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