Susquehanna River at Sunbury, PA

Important information about this monitoring location

Drainage Area excludes that of Shamokin Creek. See WSP 1903 for history of changes prior to Dec. 13, 1937. Dec. 13, 1937, to Mar. 23, 1967, water-stage recorder at site 1.7 mi upstream at datum 11.05 ft higher. Flow slightly regulated by 14 flood-control reservoirs which have a capacity of about 809,000 acre-ft, and during low flow by Fabridam, forming Lake Augusta located 1.5 mi upstream.

Location details and information

Metadata Element	Location Metadata	Metadata Code
Agency	U.S. Geological Survey	USGS
Site identification number	01554000	_n/a
Site name	Susquehanna River at Sunbury, PA	_n/a
Site type	Stream	ST
DMS latitude	405004	_n/a
DMS longitude	0764937	_n/a
Decimal latitude	40.8345293	_n/a
Decimal longitude	-76.8266349	_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	Snyder County	109
Country	US	_n/a
Land net location description		_n/a
Name of location map	SUNBURY	_n/a
Scale of location map	24000	_n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface	407.90 feet	_n/a
Method altitude determined	Level or other surveyed method.	L
Altitude accuracy	.01 feet	_n/a
Altitude datum	North American Vertical Datum of 1988	NAVD88
Subbasin hydrologic unit	Lower Susquehanna-Penns	02050301
Drainage basin		_n/a
Topographic setting		_n/a
Flags for instruments at site	YNNNYNNNNNYNYNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN	_n/a
Date of first construction		_n/a
Date site established or inventoried		_n/a
Drainage area	18300 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		_n/a

Operated in cooperation with:

Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, Bureau of Safe Drinking Water

USGS - Federal Priority Streamgages