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  • New to WDFN: see current water conditions throughout the state using the new State Pages. Visit the Louisiana page for an example. Filter by continuous data type and age of data, view latest values, and link to graphing options to explore the data further. You can update the state name in the URL to visit your State Page or read our announcement on the Water Data for the Nation blog to find links to all the state and territory pages.
Important Inventory Page

USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Physical Groundwater Levels 1908-01-01 1908-01-01
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 400147075105601 is associated with a Well in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. Water data back to 1908 are available online.

Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
400147075105601 n/a
Site name
PH 581 n/a
Site type
Well
GW
DMS latitude 400147 n/a
DMS longitude 0751056 n/a
Decimal latitude 40.0298341 n/a
Decimal longitude -75.1818445 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
Philadelphia County 101
Country US n/a
Land net location description n/a
Name of location map GERMANTOWN n/a
Scale of location map 24000 n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface 220.00 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
Schuylkill 02040203
Drainage basin
n/a
Topographic setting
Hillside
S
Flags for instruments at site NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN n/a
Date of first construction
19080101 n/a
Date site established or inventoried n/a
Drainage area
n/a
Contributing drainage area n/a
Time Zone abbreviation EST n/a
Site honors Daylight Saving Time
Y n/a
Data reliability
Data have been checked by the reporting agency. C
Data-other GW files YYYYNNNN n/a
National aquifer Piedmont and Blue Ridge crystalline-rock aquifers N400PDMBRX
Local aquifer Wissahickon Formation, Oligoclase Mica Schist 300WSCKO
Local aquifer type
n/a
Well depth 204 feet n/a
Hole depth
n/a
Source of depth data n/a
Project number n/a