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USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Information Water-quality 1959-10-22 1999-09-15
Inorganics, Major, Metals Water-quality 1959-10-22 1999-09-15
Inorganics, Major, Non-metals Water-quality 1959-10-22 1999-09-15
Inorganics, Minor, Non-metals Water-quality 1972-04-11 1999-09-15
Inorganics, Minor, metals Water-quality 1959-10-22 1999-09-15
Microbiological Water-quality 1962-07-28 1971-02-24
Nutrient Water-quality 1959-10-22 1999-09-15
Organics, other Water-quality 1969-05-23 1999-09-15
Organics, pesticide Water-quality 1999-05-12 1999-09-15
Physical Daily Values, Unit Values, Water-quality 1935-10-01 2024-11-25
Radiochemistry Water-quality 1964-07-24 1970-11-24
Sediment Water-quality 1999-05-12 1999-09-15
n/a Peak Measurements 1936-06-13 2023-05-01
n/a Site Visits 1935-06-06 2024-10-17
n/a USGS Annual Water Data Reports Site 2006-01-01 2023-01-01
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 01459500 is associated with a Stream in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Current conditions of Discharge, Gage height, and Stream water level elevation above NAVD 1988 are available. Water data back to 1935 are available online.

There is slight regulation at low flow from operation of mills upstream. Flow regulated by Nockamixon Reservoir, about 6.2 miles upstream, since December 1973.
Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
01459500 n/a
Site name
Tohickon Creek near Pipersville, PA n/a
Site type
Stream
ST
DMS latitude 402601 n/a
DMS longitude 0750701 n/a
Decimal latitude 40.4337151 n/a
Decimal longitude -75.1165609 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
Bucks County 017
Country US n/a
Land net location description n/a
Name of location map n/a
Scale of location map n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface 258.12 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
Middle Delaware-Musconetcong 02040105
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 193507 n/a
Drainage area
97.4 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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