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USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Physical Daily Values, Unit Values 2000-02-11 2024-11-21
n/a USGS Annual Water Data Reports Site 2006-01-01 2024-01-01
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 01049505 is associated with a Tidal stream in Kennebec County, Maine. Current conditions of Gage height are available. Water data back to 2000 are available online.

The elevation of this gage is -0.90 ft above NAVD of 1988. To obtain stream water surface elevation values in NAVD88, add -0.90 feet to gage height values.
Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
01049505 n/a
Site name
Kennebec River at Gardiner, Maine n/a
Site type
Tidal stream
ST-TS
DMS latitude 441349 n/a
DMS longitude 0694610 n/a
Decimal latitude 44.23027778 n/a
Decimal longitude -69.7694444 n/a
Latitude-longitude method
Interpolated from Digital MAP. N
Latitude-longitude accuracy
Accurate to + or - 1 sec. S
Latitude-longitude datum
North American Datum of 1983 NAD83
Decimal Latitude-longitude datum North American Datum of 1983 NAD83
District
Maine 23
State
Maine 23
County
Kennebec County 011
Country US n/a
Land net location description n/a
Name of location map GARDINER n/a
Scale of location map 24000 n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface -0.90 feet n/a
Method altitude determined GNSS2 - Level 2 Quality Survey Grade Global Navigation Satellite System X
Altitude accuracy .10 feet n/a
Altitude datum
North American Vertical Datum of 1988 NAVD88
Subbasin hydrologic unit
Lower Kennebec 01030003
Drainage basin
n/a
Topographic setting
Stream channel
C
Flags for instruments at site YNNNYNNNNYNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN n/a
Date of first construction
n/a
Date site established or inventoried n/a
Drainage area
5760 square miles n/a
Contributing drainage area 5760 square miles n/a
Time Zone abbreviation EST n/a
Site honors Daylight Saving Time
Y n/a
Data reliability
n/a
Data-other GW files NNNNNNNN n/a
National aquifer n/a
Local aquifer n/a
Local aquifer type
n/a
Well depth n/a
Hole depth
n/a
Source of depth data n/a
Project number 442300100 n/a

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