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Important Inventory Page

USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Information Water-quality 1996-07-02 1996-07-09
Inorganics, Major, Metals Water-quality 1996-07-09 1996-07-09
Inorganics, Major, Non-metals Water-quality 1996-07-09 1996-07-09
Inorganics, Minor, Non-metals Water-quality 1996-07-09 1996-07-09
Inorganics, Minor, metals Water-quality 1996-07-09 1996-07-09
Nutrient Water-quality 1996-07-09 1996-07-09
Organics, other Water-quality 1996-07-09 1996-07-09
Organics, pesticide Water-quality 1996-07-09 1996-07-09
Physical Groundwater Levels, Water-quality 1996-07-02 1996-07-09
Radiochemistry Water-quality 1996-07-09 1996-07-09
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 400953079382101 is associated with a Well in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. Water data back to 1996 are available online.

Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
400953079382101 n/a
Site name
WE 309 n/a
Site type
Well
GW
DMS latitude 400953 n/a
DMS longitude 0793821 n/a
Decimal latitude 40.164794 n/a
Decimal longitude -79.6389295 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
Westmoreland County 129
Country US n/a
Land net location description n/a
Name of location map SMITHTON n/a
Scale of location map 24000 n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface 1240 feet n/a
Method altitude determined Interpolated from topographic map. M
Altitude accuracy 5.0 feet n/a
Altitude datum
National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929 NGVD29
Subbasin hydrologic unit
05020006
Drainage basin
n/a
Topographic setting
Hillside
S
Flags for instruments at site NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN n/a
Date of first construction
1984 n/a
Date site established or inventoried 19960627 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 YNNYNYNN n/a
National aquifer Pennsylvanian aquifers N300PNSLVN
Local aquifer Casselman Formation 321CSLM
Local aquifer type
Unconfined single aquifer U
Well depth 55 feet n/a
Hole depth
55 feet n/a
Source of depth data D n/a
Project number 444223401 n/a