Glendale Lake near Flinton, PA - 01541340
Important information about this monitoring location
Reservoir is formed by an earth and rockfill dam with ungated concrete spillway at elevation 1,435.00 ft. Storage began December 1, 1960. Capacity at elevation 1,435.00 ft is 41,200 acre-ft of which 15,900 acre-ft is controlled storage above elevation 1,427.00 ft. Dead storage is 25,300 acre-ft. Reservoir is used for flood control and recreation. Outflow is controlled by 72-inch gate and an 8-inch bypass valve.
Location details and information
Metadata Element | Location Metadata | Metadata Code |
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Agency
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U.S. Geological Survey | USGS |
Site identification number
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01541340 | n/a |
Site name
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Glendale Lake near Flinton, PA | n/a |
Site type
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Lake, Reservoir, Impoundment
|
LK |
DMS latitude | 404150 | n/a |
DMS longitude | 0783215 | n/a |
Decimal latitude | 40.6972862 | n/a |
Decimal longitude | -78.5372437 | n/a |
Latitude-longitude method
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Interpolated from MAP. | M |
Latitude-longitude accuracy
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Accurate to + or - 1 sec. | S |
Latitude-longitude datum
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North American Datum of 1927 | NAD27 |
Decimal Latitude-longitude datum | North American Datum of 1983 | NAD83 |
District
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Pennsylvania | 42 |
State
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Pennsylvania | 42 |
County
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Cambria County | 021 |
Country | US | n/a |
Land net location description | n/a | |
Name of location map | COALPORT | n/a |
Scale of location map | 24000 | n/a |
Altitude of Gage/land surface | n/a | |
Method altitude determined | n/a | |
Altitude accuracy | n/a | |
Altitude datum
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n/a | |
Subbasin hydrologic unit
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Upper West Branch Susquehanna | 02050201 |
Drainage basin
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n/a | |
Topographic setting
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n/a | |
Flags for instruments at site | NNNNYNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN | n/a |
Date of first construction
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n/a | |
Date site established or inventoried | n/a | |
Drainage area
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41.9 square miles | n/a |
Contributing drainage area | 41.9 square miles | n/a |
Time Zone abbreviation | EST | n/a |
Site honors Daylight Saving Time
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Y | n/a |
Data reliability
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n/a | |
Data-other GW files | NNNNNNNN | n/a |
National aquifer | n/a | |
Local aquifer | n/a | |
Local aquifer type
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n/a | |
Well depth | n/a | |
Hole depth
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n/a | |
Source of depth data | n/a | |
Project number | n/a |