Little Conemaugh River at East Conemaugh, PA

Important information about this monitoring location

Prior to Feb. 1, 1940, July 21, 1977 to Dec. 13, 1979, and Feb. 7, 1984 to Sept. 30, 1984, non-recording gage at site 1,000 ft downstream at datum 3.0 ft lower. Feb. 2, 1940 to July 20, 1977, Dec. 14, 1979 to Feb. 6, 1984, and Oct. 1, 1984 to Oct. 4, 1989, water-stage recorder 1,100 ft downstream at same datum. Flow regulated by reservoirs and diversion above station; the two most effective reservoirs have a combined capacity of 5,640 acre-ft.

Location details and information

Metadata Element	Location Metadata	Metadata Code
Agency	U.S. Geological Survey	USGS
Site identification number	03041000	_n/a
Site name	Little Conemaugh River at East Conemaugh, PA	_n/a
Site type	Stream	ST
DMS latitude	402045	_n/a
DMS longitude	0785258	_n/a
Decimal latitude	40.34590716	_n/a
Decimal longitude	-78.8825244	_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	Cambria County	021
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	1211.29 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	Conemaugh	05010007
Drainage basin		_n/a
Topographic setting		_n/a
Flags for instruments at site	NNNNYNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN	_n/a
Date of first construction		_n/a
Date site established or inventoried		_n/a
Drainage area	183 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	247600152	_n/a

Operated in cooperation with:

US Army Corps of Engineers - Pittsburgh District