East Branch Penobscot River at Grindstone, Maine - 01029500

Important information about this monitoring location

The elevation of this gage is 294.10 ft above NAVD of 1988. To obtain stream water surface elevation values in NAVD88, add 294.10 feet to gage height values.

Location details and information

Metadata Element	Location Metadata	Metadata Code
Agency	U.S. Geological Survey	USGS
Site identification number	01029500	_n/a
Site name	East Branch Penobscot River at Grindstone, Maine	_n/a
Site type	Stream	ST
DMS latitude	454349	_n/a
DMS longitude	0683522	_n/a
Decimal latitude	45.73027778	_n/a
Decimal longitude	-68.5894444	_n/a
Latitude-longitude method	Interpolated from Digital MAP.	N
Latitude-longitude accuracy	Accurate to + or - 1 sec.	S
Latitude-longitude datum	North American Datum of 1983	NAD83
Decimal Latitude-longitude datum	North American Datum of 1983	NAD83
District	Maine	23
State	Maine	23
County	Penobscot County	019
Country	US	_n/a
Land net location description		_n/a
Name of location map	East Millinocket	_n/a
Scale of location map	24000	_n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface	294.10 feet	_n/a
Method altitude determined	GNSS2 - Level 2 Quality Survey Grade Global Navigation Satellite System	X
Altitude accuracy	.17 feet	_n/a
Altitude datum	North American Vertical Datum of 1988	NAVD88
Subbasin hydrologic unit	East Branch Penobscot	01020002
Drainage basin		_n/a
Topographic setting		_n/a
Flags for instruments at site	YNNNYNYNNYNNNNNNYNNNNNNNNNNNNN	_n/a
Date of first construction		_n/a
Date site established or inventoried		_n/a
Drainage area	837 square miles	_n/a
Contributing drainage area	1086.0 square miles	_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	442300100	_n/a

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