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USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Physical Daily Values, Unit Values 2019-10-01 2024-11-24
n/a Peak Measurements 1969-07-28 2023-06-26
n/a Site Visits 1968-12-23 2024-11-21
n/a USGS Annual Water Data Reports Site 2020-01-01 2023-01-01
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Monitoring location 01478950 is associated with a Stream in New Castle County, Delaware. Current conditions of Discharge, Gage height, Specific conductance, and more are available. Water data back to 1968 are available online.

LOCATION.-- On left bank downstream of highway bridge on Upper Pike Creek Road, 2.7 mi northeast of Newark, and 0.8 mi upstream from mouth. PERIOD OF RECORD.-- Annual maximum, water years 1969-75. October 2019 to current year. GAGE.--Water-stage recorder and crest-stage gage. Datum of gage is 41.61 ft above North American Vertical Datum of 1988. October 2019 to September 2020, datum of gage was published as 49.0 ft above North American Vertical Datum of 1988. November 1968 to September 1975, nonrecording gage at site 0.35 mi downstream, on right upstream wingwall of bridge on State Highway 2, at datum 30.96 ft above National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929. PERIOD OF RECORD (Water Quality).-- October 2019 to current year.
Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
01478950 n/a
Site name
PIKE CREEK NEAR NEWARK, DE n/a
Site type
Stream
ST
DMS latitude 394224.8 n/a
DMS longitude 0754142.3 n/a
Decimal latitude 39.70688889 n/a
Decimal longitude -75.6950833 n/a
Latitude-longitude method
GNSS3 - Level 3 Quality Survey Grade Global Navigation Satellite System Y
Latitude-longitude accuracy
Accurate to + or - .1 sec (Differentially-Corrected GPS). 1
Latitude-longitude datum
North American Datum of 1983 NAD83
Decimal Latitude-longitude datum North American Datum of 1983 NAD83
District
Maryland 24
State
Delaware 10
County
New Castle County 003
Country US n/a
Land net location description n/a
Name of location map NEWARK EAST, DE n/a
Scale of location map 24000 n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface 41.61 feet n/a
Method altitude determined GNSS3 - Level 3 Quality Survey Grade Global Navigation Satellite System Y
Altitude accuracy .16 feet n/a
Altitude datum
North American Vertical Datum of 1988 NAVD88
Subbasin hydrologic unit
Brandywine-Christina 02040205
Drainage basin
n/a
Topographic setting
n/a
Flags for instruments at site YNNNYNYNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN n/a
Date of first construction
n/a
Date site established or inventoried n/a
Drainage area
5.89 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 441000100 n/a

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