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Important Inventory Page

USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Information Water-quality 1998-07-13 1998-07-13
Nutrient Water-quality 1998-07-13 1998-07-13
Physical Water-quality 1998-07-13 1998-07-13
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 01555335 is associated with a Stream in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. Water data back to 1998 are available online.

Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
01555335 n/a
Site name
Mahantango Creek near Hepler, PA n/a
Site type
Stream
ST
DMS latitude 404035 n/a
DMS longitude 0763427 n/a
Decimal latitude 40.67647507 n/a
Decimal longitude -76.5738503 n/a
Latitude-longitude method
Mapping grade GPS unit (handheld accuracy range 12 to 40 ft) G
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
Schuylkill County 107
Country US n/a
Land net location description n/a
Name of location map VALLEY VIEW n/a
Scale of location map 24000 n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface 669. feet n/a
Method altitude determined G n/a
Altitude accuracy 20 feet n/a
Altitude datum
National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929 NGVD29
Subbasin hydrologic unit
Lower Susquehanna-Penns 02050301
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 19980713 n/a
Drainage area
14.8 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 n/a