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USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Information Water-quality 2004-06-28 2018-04-23
Physical Daily Values, Unit Values, Water-quality 1967-08-01 2024-11-25
n/a Peak Measurements 1968-05-31 2023-07-10
n/a Site Visits 1967-07-10 2024-10-23
n/a USGS Annual Water Data Reports Site 2006-01-01 2024-01-01
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 01449800 is associated with a Stream in Carbon County, Pennsylvania. Current conditions of Discharge, Gage height, Stream water level elevation above NAVD 1988, and more are available. Water data back to 1967 are available online.

Flow regulated for entire period of record by Wild Creek Reservoir, Penn Forest Reservoir, and Beltzville Lake. Diversion upstream from Tunhannock Creek to Wild Creek Basin since October 1969.
Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
01449800 n/a
Site name
Pohopoco Cr bl Beltzville Dam nr Parryville, PA n/a
Site type
Stream
ST
DMS latitude 405044 n/a
DMS longitude 0753846 n/a
Decimal latitude 40.84564756 n/a
Decimal longitude -75.6457437 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 LEHIGHTON n/a
Scale of location map 24000 n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface 491.4 feet n/a
Method altitude determined GNSS2 - Level 2 Quality Survey Grade Global Navigation Satellite System X
Altitude accuracy .04 feet n/a
Altitude datum
North American Vertical Datum of 1988 NAVD88
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 196710 n/a
Drainage area
96.4 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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