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Important Inventory Page

USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Physical Daily Values 2005-10-01 2008-06-23
n/a Peak Measurements 1983-10-25 1992-12-11
n/a USGS Annual Water Data Reports Site 2006-01-01 2008-01-01
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 01481602 is associated with an Estuary in New Castle County, Delaware. Water data back to 1983 are available online.

Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
01481602 n/a
Site name
DELAWARE RIV BELOW CHRISTINA RIV AT WILMINGTON, DE n/a
Site type
Estuary
ES
DMS latitude 394300.0 n/a
DMS longitude 0753059.6 n/a
Decimal latitude 39.71666667 n/a
Decimal longitude -75.5165556 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 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 WILMINGTON SOUTH, DE n/a
Scale of location map 24000 n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface 0.00 feet n/a
Method altitude determined Level or other surveyed method. L
Altitude accuracy .01 feet n/a
Altitude datum
National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929 NGVD29
Subbasin hydrologic unit
Brandywine-Christina 02040205
Drainage basin
n/a
Topographic setting
n/a
Flags for instruments at site NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN n/a
Date of first construction
n/a
Date site established or inventoried n/a
Drainage area
11030 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 242700151 n/a