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USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Physical Daily Values, Unit Values 2007-10-01 2024-11-29
n/a USGS Annual Water Data Reports Site 2006-01-01 2024-01-01
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Monitoring location 01449790 is associated with a Lake, Reservoir, Impoundment in Carbon County, Pennsylvania. Current conditions of Elevation of reservoir water surface above datum and Precipitation are available. Water data back to 2006 are available online.

Reservoir is formed by earth and rockfill dam with ungated, partially lined spillway at an elevation of 651.00 ft. Storage began Feb. 8, 1971. Capacity at elevation 651.00 ft is 68,300 acre-ft. Ordinary minimum contents (conservation) pool elevation is 628.00 ft, capacity, 41,250 acre-ft. Dead storage is 1,390 acre-ft. Lake is used for recreation, flood control, low-flow augmentation, and water supply. Regulation is accomplished by a multi-level water-quality outlet system, and two flood-control gates. 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.
Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
01449790 n/a
Site name
Beltzville Lake near Parryville, PA n/a
Site type
Lake, Reservoir, Impoundment
LK
DMS latitude 405056 n/a
DMS longitude 0753819 n/a
Decimal latitude 40.84898086 n/a
Decimal longitude -75.6382436 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
Pennsylvania 42
State
Pennsylvania 42
County
Carbon County 025
Country US n/a
Land net location description n/a
Name of location map PALMERTON n/a
Scale of location map 24000 n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface n/a
Method altitude determined n/a
Altitude accuracy n/a
Altitude datum
n/a
Subbasin hydrologic unit
Lehigh 02040106
Drainage basin
n/a
Topographic setting
n/a
Flags for instruments at site NNNNYNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN n/a
Date of first construction
n/a
Date site established or inventoried 197201 n/a
Drainage area
96.3 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 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 n/a

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