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Important Inventory Page

USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Information Water-quality 1973-05-24 2023-09-27
Inorganics, Major, Metals Water-quality 1973-05-24 2023-09-27
Inorganics, Major, Non-metals Water-quality 1973-05-24 2023-09-27
Inorganics, Minor, Non-metals Water-quality 2016-08-23 2016-08-23
Inorganics, Minor, metals Water-quality 1973-05-24 2023-09-27
Nutrient Water-quality 1973-05-24 2023-09-27
Organics, PFAS Water-quality 2019-09-19 2019-09-19
Organics, other Water-quality 1973-07-24 2005-03-16
Physical Water-quality 1973-05-24 2023-09-27
n/a Site Visits 1990-04-26 2024-08-14
n/a USGS Annual Water Data Reports Site 2006-01-01 2013-01-01
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 01494990 is associated with a Stream in Chester County, Pennsylvania. Water data back to 1973 are available online.

Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
01494990 n/a
Site name
Big Elk Creek near Lewisville, PA n/a
Site type
Stream
ST
DMS latitude 394348 n/a
DMS longitude 0755054 n/a
Decimal latitude 39.7301107 n/a
Decimal longitude -75.8479951 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
Chester County 029
Country US n/a
Land net location description n/a
Name of location map NEWARK WEST n/a
Scale of location map 24000 n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface 275 feet n/a
Method altitude determined Interpolated from topographic map. M
Altitude accuracy 10 feet n/a
Altitude datum
National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929 NGVD29
Subbasin hydrologic unit
Chester-Sassafras 02060002
Drainage basin
n/a
Topographic setting
n/a
Flags for instruments at site NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN n/a
Date of first construction
n/a
Date site established or inventoried 19900426 n/a
Drainage area
41.0 square miles n/a
Contributing drainage area 41.0 square miles 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