USGS 01575598 Codorus Creek near Saginaw, PA

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Station gage imageSTATION.--01575598 CODORUS CREEK NEAR SAGINAW, PA
LOCATION.--Lat 40`03'08", long 76`39'16", York County, Hydrologic Unit, 02050306, on downstream side of bridge on Furnace Road over Codorus Creek East Manchester Township, 0.83 mi upstream from mouth.
DRAINAGE AREA.--277 square miles.
PERIOD OF RECORD.--September 2019 to current year.
GAGE.--Water-stage recorder and crest-stage gage. Datum of gage is 253 ft above North American Vertical Datum of 1988. Satellite telemetry at station.
COOPERATION.--Station established and maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey in cooperation with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the County of York.
REMARKS.--Flow regulated by Lake Marburg (01574390) Indian Rock Dam (01574700), Lake Williams and Lake Redmond; combined capacity 65,650 acre-ft. Regulation at low flow by mills and pumping station York Water Company on South Branch Codorus Creek.
Supplied by USGS-- Data transmitter operational limit - 20.0 ft.
This station managed by the PAWSC New Cumberland Office.

Available Parameters Available Period
  
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Temperature, water, degrees Celsius
Most recent instantaneous value: 5.0 02-20-2026   06:45 EST
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Discharge, cubic feet per second
Most recent instantaneous value: 312 02-20-2026   06:45 EST
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Daily discharge, cubic feet per second -- statistics for Feb 20 based on 6 water years of record more
Min
(2025)		 25th
percen-
tile		 Mean Median Most Recent
Instantaneous
Value Feb 20		 75th
percen-
tile		 Max
(2020)
178 207 288 299 312 367 372

Gage height, feet
Most recent instantaneous value: 2.28 02-20-2026   06:45 EST
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Specific conductance, water, unfiltered, microsiemens per centimeter at 25 degrees Celsius
Most recent instantaneous value: 697 02-20-2026   06:45 EST
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Dissolved oxygen, water, unfiltered, milligrams per liter
 
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pH, water, unfiltered, field, standard units
 
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Turbidity, water, unfiltered, monochrome near infra-red LED light, 780-900 nm, detection angle 90 +-2.5 degrees, formazin nephelometric units (FNU), [(2)]
Most recent instantaneous value: 26.9 02-20-2026   06:45 EST
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Suspended sediment load, water, unfiltered, computed by regression equation, pounds per day
Most recent instantaneous value: 84000 02-20-2026   06:45 EST
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Total nitrogen [nitrate + nitrite + ammonia + organic-N] yield, computed by regression equation, pounds per day per square mile
Most recent instantaneous value: 14.32 02-20-2026   06:45 EST
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Phosphorus yield, computed by regression equation, pounds per day per square mile
Most recent instantaneous value: 1.03 02-20-2026   06:45 EST
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Suspended sediment yield, computed by regression equation, pounds per day per square mile
Most recent instantaneous value: 303.73 02-20-2026   06:45 EST
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Suspended sediment load, water, unfiltered, computed, the product of regression-computed suspended sediment concentration and streamflow, short tons per day
Most recent instantaneous value: 42.1 02-20-2026   06:45 EST
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Phosphorus, water, unfiltered, pounds of phosphorus per day
Most recent instantaneous value: 286 02-20-2026   06:45 EST
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Total nitrogen [nitrate + nitrite + ammonia + organic-N], water, unfiltered, pounds of nitrogen per day
Most recent instantaneous value: 3970 02-20-2026   06:45 EST
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Nitrate plus nitrite, water, in situ, milligrams per liter as nitrogen, [Qualified]
Most recent instantaneous value: 1.6 02-20-2026   06:45 EST
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Suspended sediment concentration, water, unfiltered, estimated by regression equation, milligrams per liter
Most recent instantaneous value: 50.0 02-20-2026   06:45 EST
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Phosphorus, water, unfiltered, estimated by regression equation, milligrams per liter as phosphorus
Most recent instantaneous value: 0.17 02-20-2026   06:45 EST
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Total nitrogen [nitrate + nitrite + ammonia + organic-N], water, unfiltered, estimated by regression equation, milligrams per liter as nitrogen
Most recent instantaneous value: 2.4 02-20-2026   06:45 EST
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