Funding for this site is provided by:
STATION.--01573710 CONEWAGO CREEK near FALMOUTH,
PA
LOCATION.--Lat 40`08'57.5", long
76`41'15.9", Dauphin County, Hydrologic Unit 02050305, along
Hillsdale Road on right bank, at bridge at the intersection Hillsdale
Road and Saw Mill Road, 2.5 miles from confluence with Susquehana River
at Falmouth, 5.8 miles from Middletown, PA.
DRAINAGE AREA.--47.5 square miles.
PERIOD OF RECORD.--June 2011 to current year.
GAGE.--Water-stage recorder, crest-stage gage, water
quality sensor, and non-heated tipping bucket precipitation gage.
Satellite telemetry at site. Datum of gage is 310 ft above National
Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929, from topographic map. On November 14,
2018, the gage was relocated 0.3 miles upstream. Gage heights will be
about 2.3 ft higher than before the gage was moved.
COOPERATION.--Funding is provided by the Pennsylvania
Department of Environmental Protection as part of a water-quality
assessment of the Conewago Creek Watershed.
REMARKS.--Flow can be influenced from upstream
operations. Conewago Lake in Mt Gretna can be drained to permit
maintenance, inspection, and repair of the in-lake structure.
The 15-minute precipitation 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.
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