West Conewago Creek near Manchester, PA

Important information about this monitoring location

Prior to Sept 13, 2017 the gage was located at Lat 40`04'56", long 76`43'13", on left bank 500 ft upstream from bridge on State Highway 181, and 0.6 mi downstream from Little Conewago Creek. Occasional slight regulation since October 1959 by Conewago Lake about 13 mi upstream, capacity, 3,570 acre-ft. Also, occasional releases from Lake Meade about 30 mi upstream, 0.42 sq mi.

Location details and information

Metadata Element	Location Metadata	Metadata Code
Agency	U.S. Geological Survey	USGS
Site identification number	01574000	_n/a
Site name	West Conewago Creek near Manchester, PA	_n/a
Site type	Stream	ST
DMS latitude	400450.9	_n/a
DMS longitude	0764306.21	_n/a
Decimal latitude	40.08082205	_n/a
Decimal longitude	-76.71805199	_n/a
Latitude-longitude method	Interpolated from MAP.	M
Latitude-longitude accuracy	Accurate to + or - .1 sec (Differentially-Corrected GPS).	1
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	York County	133
Country	US	_n/a
Land net location description		_n/a
Name of location map		_n/a
Scale of location map		_n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface	262.89 feet	_n/a
Method altitude determined	Level or other surveyed method.	L
Altitude accuracy	.01 feet	_n/a
Altitude datum	North American Vertical Datum of 1988	NAVD88
Subbasin hydrologic unit	Lower Susquehanna	02050306
Drainage basin		_n/a
Topographic setting		_n/a
Flags for instruments at site	YNNNYNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN	_n/a
Date of first construction		_n/a
Date site established or inventoried		_n/a
Drainage area	510 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

Operated in cooperation with:

County of York

Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, Bureau of Safe Drinking Water

USGS - Federal Priority Streamgages