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USGS 01478650 WHITE CLAY CREEK AT NEWARK, DE

PROVISIONAL DATA SUBJECT TO REVISION

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LOCATION.-- On right bank 200 ft upstream from highway bridge on Paper Mill Road, at Newark, and 10.3 mi upstream from mouth.
PERIOD OF RECORD.--March 1994 to current year.
GAGE.--Water-stage recorder and crest-stage gage. Datum of gage is 55.31 ft above North American Vertical Datum of 1988 and 56.45 ft above National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929.
REMARKS.--Flow affected by the City of Newark municipal water treatment plant upstream from the station, and by periodic withdrawals to maintain storage in the City of Newark's pumped storage reservoir.
PERIOD OF RECORD (Water Quality).-- WATER TEMPERATURE: October 2018 to current year. SPECIFIC CONDUCTANCE: September 2019 to current year.
This station managed by the MD-DE-DC Water Science Center Dover office.

Available Parameters Available Period
  
2018-10-01  2026-05-28
1994-10-13  2026-05-28
2007-10-01  2026-05-28
2019-09-19  2026-05-28
2007-10-01  2026-05-28







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Temperature, water, degrees Celsius
Most recent instantaneous value: 19.0 05-28-2026   05:15 EDT
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Discharge, cubic feet per second
Most recent instantaneous value: 86.9 05-28-2026   05:15 EDT
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Daily discharge, cubic feet per second -- statistics for May 28 based on 31 water years of record more
Min
(2002)		 25th
percen-
tile		 Median Mean Most Recent
Instantaneous
Value May 28		 75th
percen-
tile		 Max
(2014)
29.0 49 69 73 86.9 95 162

Gage height, feet
Most recent instantaneous value: 5.82 05-28-2026   05:15 EDT
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Specific conductance, water, unfiltered, microsiemens per centimeter at 25 degrees Celsius
Most recent instantaneous value: 382 05-28-2026   05:15 EDT
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Stream water level elevation above NAVD 1988, in feet
Most recent instantaneous value: 61.13 05-28-2026   05:15 EDT
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