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USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Physical Daily Values, Groundwater Levels, Unit Values 1956-11-29 2024-11-21
n/a USGS Active Groundwater Level Network Site 1956-01-01 2021-01-01
n/a USGS Annual Water Data Reports Site 2006-01-01 2023-01-01
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 401637076071501 is associated with a Well in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Current conditions of Depth to water level are available. Water data back to 1956 are available online.

Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
401637076071501 n/a
Site name
LN 1351 Lancaster County Observation Well n/a
Site type
Well
GW
DMS latitude 401637.3 n/a
DMS longitude 0760714.4 n/a
Decimal latitude 40.27702778 n/a
Decimal longitude -76.1206667 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 (Differentially-Corrected GPS). 1
Latitude-longitude datum
North American Datum of 1983 NAD83
Decimal Latitude-longitude datum North American Datum of 1983 NAD83
District
Pennsylvania 42
State
Pennsylvania 42
County
Lancaster County 071
Country US n/a
Land net location description n/a
Name of location map SINKING SPRING n/a
Scale of location map 24000 n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface 491 feet n/a
Method altitude determined Light Detection And Ranging, airplane J
Altitude accuracy 1 feet n/a
Altitude datum
North American Vertical Datum of 1988 NAVD88
Subbasin hydrologic unit
Lower Susquehanna 02050306
Drainage basin
n/a
Topographic setting
Valley flat
V
Flags for instruments at site NNNNYNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN n/a
Date of first construction
19561129 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 YYYYNYNN n/a
National aquifer Early Mesozoic basin aquifers N300ERLMZC
Local aquifer Hammer Creek Formation 231HMCK
Local aquifer type
Unconfined single aquifer U
Well depth 135 feet n/a
Hole depth
n/a
Source of depth data n/a
Project number n/a

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