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USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Physical Daily Values, Unit Values 2003-09-30 2024-11-24
n/a USGS Annual Water Data Reports Site 2006-01-01 2023-01-01
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Monitoring location 01563100 is associated with a Lake, Reservoir, Impoundment in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania. Current conditions of Elevation of reservoir water surface above datum, Precipitation, and Temperature are available. Water data back to 2003 are available online.

Reservoir is formed by earthfill dam with a gated spillway in right abutment at elevation 768.6 ft (capacity, 383,500 acre-ft), and an ungated spillway separate from embankment at elevation 812.0 ft (capacity, 762,000 acre-ft). Storage began November 1972. Conservation pool elevation is 786.0 ft, capacity 514,000 acre-ft. Lake is used for flood control, low-flow augmentation, and recreation. The 15-minute precipitation data for this station are temporary and will only be displayed for 120 days. Time series of 1-hour or cumulative daily values will NOT be available for retrieval following the 120-day display period. Although the instrumentation is calibrated at least once a year, the temporary classification means that documented routine inspections and other quality assurance measures are not performed that would make the data acceptable for archival, retrieval, or future use in general scientific or interpretive studies.
Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
01563100 n/a
Site name
Raystown Lake near Huntingdon, PA n/a
Site type
Lake, Reservoir, Impoundment
LK
DMS latitude 402606 n/a
DMS longitude 0780025 n/a
Decimal latitude 40.4350748 n/a
Decimal longitude -78.0066697 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
Huntingdon County 061
Country US n/a
Land net location description n/a
Name of location map HUNTINGDON n/a
Scale of location map 24000 n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface n/a
Method altitude determined n/a
Altitude accuracy n/a
Altitude datum
n/a
Subbasin hydrologic unit
Raystown 02050303
Drainage basin
n/a
Topographic setting
n/a
Flags for instruments at site NNNNYNYNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN n/a
Date of first construction
n/a
Date site established or inventoried 19721101 n/a
Drainage area
959 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 20100 n/a

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