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Important Inventory Page

USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Information Water-quality 1999-06-03 2000-06-15
Inorganics, Major, Metals Water-quality 1999-06-03 2000-06-15
Inorganics, Major, Non-metals Water-quality 1999-06-03 2000-06-15
Inorganics, Minor, Non-metals Water-quality 2000-06-15 2000-06-15
Inorganics, Minor, metals Water-quality 1999-06-03 2000-06-15
Microbiological Water-quality 1999-06-24 1999-06-24
Nutrient Water-quality 1999-06-24 2000-06-15
Physical Water-quality 1999-06-03 2000-06-15
n/a Site Visits 1999-02-17 2000-01-11
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 01537574 is associated with a Stream in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. Water data back to 1999 are available online.

Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
01537574 n/a
Site name
Newport Creek below South Branch at Nanticoke, PA n/a
Site type
Stream
ST
DMS latitude 411213 n/a
DMS longitude 0760046 n/a
Decimal latitude 41.20369329 n/a
Decimal longitude -76.0124234 n/a
Latitude-longitude method
Interpolated from MAP. M
Latitude-longitude accuracy
Accurate to + or - 3 sec (SPS GPS). R
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
Luzerne County 079
Country US n/a
Land net location description n/a
Name of location map NANTICOKE n/a
Scale of location map 24000 n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface 560 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
Upper Susquehanna-Lackawanna 02050107
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 19990603 n/a
Drainage area
13.2 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 444229000 n/a