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[!] Over the next year, the USGS Pennsylvania Water Science Center will be updating the geodetic vertical elevation (gage datum) for many locations. Click HERE for additional information including a current list of streamgages with upcoming datum changes. This update in gage datum does not affect the location of the streamgage, nor the observed local gage height or discharge recorded at the streamgage.




USGS 01536500 Susquehanna River at Wilkes-Barre, PA

  Stream Site

DESCRIPTION:
Latitude 41°15'03",   Longitude 75°52'52"   NAD27
Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, Hydrologic Unit 02050107
Drainage area: 9,960 square miles
Datum of gage: 510.86 feet above   NAVD88.
AVAILABLE DATA:
Data Type Begin Date End Date Count
 Current / Historical Observations     (availability statement)    2007-10-01  2024-09-27  
 Daily Data
    Discharge, cubic feet per second  1899-04-01  2024-09-26  45834 
 Daily Statistics 
    Discharge, cubic feet per second  1899-04-01  2024-03-24 45649 
 Monthly Statistics 
    Discharge, cubic feet per second  1899-04  2024-03  
 Annual Statistics 
    Discharge, cubic feet per second  1899  2024  
 Peak streamflow 1786-10-05  2023-05-02  138 
 Field measurements --  2024-07-25  829 
 Field/Lab water-quality samples 1963-10-17  2017-04-10  31 
 Water-Year Summary 2006  2023  17 
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