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USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Information Water-quality 1968-07-30 1968-07-30
Inorganics, Major, Metals Water-quality 1968-01-17 1971-06-29
Inorganics, Major, Non-metals Unit Values, Water-quality 1968-01-17 2024-11-18
Microbiological Water-quality 1970-11-09 1973-02-05
Nutrient Water-quality 1968-01-17 1973-02-05
Organics, other Water-quality 1970-11-09 1973-10-01
Physical Daily Values, Unit Values, Water-quality 1965-10-01 2024-11-22
Sediment Water-quality 1967-11-09 1968-08-28
n/a Peak Measurements 1966-07-19 2022-09-01
n/a Site Visits 1976-11-18 2024-11-01
n/a USGS Annual Water Data Reports Site 2006-01-01 2023-01-01
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 01467086 is associated with a Stream in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. Current conditions of Discharge, Dissolved oxygen, Gage height, and more are available. Water data back to 1965 are available online.

Previously known as "Tacony Creek at County Line at Philadelphia, PA". Calibration of water-quality instrumentation is conducted exclusively by Philadelphia Water Department personnel with USGS oversight. Erroneous or missing data, resulting from instrument malfunction, are not the responsibility of USGS.
Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
01467086 n/a
Site name
Tacony Creek ab Adams Avenue, Philadelphia, PA n/a
Site type
Stream
ST
DMS latitude 400233 n/a
DMS longitude 0750645 n/a
Decimal latitude 40.04261157 n/a
Decimal longitude -75.1121191 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
Philadelphia County 101
Country US n/a
Land net location description n/a
Name of location map FRANKFORD n/a
Scale of location map 24000 n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface 61.11 feet n/a
Method altitude determined Level or other surveyed method. L
Altitude accuracy 0.1 feet n/a
Altitude datum
National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929 NGVD29
Subbasin hydrologic unit
Schuylkill 02040203
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 196510 n/a
Drainage area
16.7 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 247600121 n/a

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