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USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Physical Daily Values, Unit Values 2020-06-30 2024-12-18
n/a Peak Measurements 2008-09-06 2023-07-16
n/a Site Visits 1983-02-03 2024-04-11
n/a USGS Annual Water Data Reports Site 2006-01-01 2023-01-01
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Monitoring location 01208171 is associated with a Stream in New Haven County, Connecticut. Current conditions of Discharge and Gage height are available. Water data back to 1983 are available online.

The elevation of this gage is 246.29 ft above NAVD of 1988. To obtain stream water surface elevation values in NAVD88, add 246.29 feet to gage height values.
Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
01208171 n/a
Site name
NAUGATUCK RIVER AT WATERBURY, CT n/a
Site type
Stream
ST
DMS latitude 413325 n/a
DMS longitude 0730317 n/a
Decimal latitude 41.5570413 n/a
Decimal longitude -73.05427449 n/a
Latitude-longitude method
Interpolated from MAP. M
Latitude-longitude accuracy
Accurate to + or - 1 sec. S
Latitude-longitude datum
North American Datum of 1927 NAD27
Decimal Latitude-longitude datum North American Datum of 1983 NAD83
District
Connecticut 09
State
Connecticut 09
County
New Haven County 009
Country US n/a
Land net location description n/a
Name of location map Waterbury, CT n/a
Scale of location map 24000 n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface 246.29 feet n/a
Method altitude determined Level or other surveyed method. L
Altitude accuracy .01 feet n/a
Altitude datum
North American Vertical Datum of 1988 NAVD88
Subbasin hydrologic unit
Housatonic 01100005
Drainage basin
n/a
Topographic setting
Stream channel
C
Flags for instruments at site YNNNYNNNNYNNNNNNYNNNNNNNNNNNNN n/a
Date of first construction
n/a
Date site established or inventoried 20031015 n/a
Drainage area
174 square miles n/a
Contributing drainage area n/a
Time Zone abbreviation EST n/a
Site honors Daylight Saving Time
Y n/a
Data reliability
n/a
Data-other GW files 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 240400100 n/a

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