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USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Physical Daily Values, Unit Values 2020-05-27 2024-11-28
n/a USGS Annual Water Data Reports Site 2020-01-01 2023-01-01
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Monitoring location 01482220 is associated with a Stream in New Castle County, Delaware. Current conditions of Gage height and Stream water level elevation above NAVD 1988 are available. Water data back to 2020 are available online.

LOCATION.-- On creek side of tidal gate, and at the mouth. PERIOD OF RECORD.-- May 2020 to current year. GAGE.-- Water-stage recorder. Datum of gage is 0.00 ft above North American Vertical datum of 1988. REMARKS.-- Discharge is not determined at this location. Water-levels affected by tidal gates at the mouth.
Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
01482220 n/a
Site name
ARMY CREEK AT NEW CASTLE, DE n/a
Site type
Stream
ST
DMS latitude 393905.2 n/a
DMS longitude 0753512.8 n/a
Decimal latitude 39.65144444 n/a
Decimal longitude -75.58688889 n/a
Latitude-longitude method
Mapping grade GPS unit (handheld accuracy range 12 to 40 ft) G
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 WILMINGTON SOUTH, DE n/a
Scale of location map 24000 n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface 0 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
Brandywine-Christina 02040205
Drainage basin
n/a
Topographic setting
n/a
Flags for instruments at site YNNNYNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN n/a
Date of first construction
20190903 n/a
Date site established or inventoried 20190903 n/a
Drainage area
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 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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