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STATION.--01576500 CONESTOGA RIVER AT LANCASTER, PA
LOCATION.--Lat 40`03'00", long
76`16'39", Lancaster County, Hydrologic Unit 02050306, on left
bank at Penn Central Railroad bridge, 50 ft downstream from small
right-bank tributary, and 0.7 mi east of Lancaster.
DRAINAGE AREA.--324 square miles.
PERIOD OF RECORD.--October 1928 to March 1932; August,
September 1932; April 1933 to current year. Prior to October 1973,
published as Conestoga Creek at Lancaster.
GAGE.--Water-stage recorder, crest-stage gage, Pluvio
precipitation gage and concrete control. Datum of gage is 245.63 ft
above National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929. Prior to May 1, 1933,
at site 600 ft upstream at different datum, excluding small
tributary.
COOPERATION.--Funding for the operation of this
station is provided by Exelon Generation, the Pennsylvania Department
of Envirnomental Protection and the U.S. Geological Survey.
REMARKS.--Power plants, gristmills, and pumping plant
upstream cause slight regulation as a whole, and may cause rather large
fluctuations in stage at times. Water supply for the City of Lancaster
is diverted just upstream from gage.
The 15-minute precipitation and air temperature data for
this station are temporary and will only be displayed for 120
days. Time series of 1-hour or cumulative daily values will NOT be
available for retrieval following the 120-day display period.
Although the instrumentation is calibrated at least once a year,
the temporary classification means that documented routine
inspections and other quality assurance measures are not performed
that would make the data acceptable for archival, retrieval, or
future use in general scientific or interpretive studies. |
GAGE HEIGHTS OF IMPORTANCE.-
Supplied by USGS: Data transmitter operational limit -
22.0 ft;
Supplied by NWS: Action stage-9 ft; Flood stage-11 ft,
Grofftown Road will flood; Moderate flood stage-13 ft, several homes
are affected by high water; Major flood stage-15 ft, many homes near
the river area affected by high water.