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Important Inventory Page

USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Information Water-quality 1993-04-19 1994-08-19
Inorganics, Major, Metals Water-quality 1993-04-29 1994-04-14
Inorganics, Major, Non-metals Water-quality 1993-04-19 1994-08-19
Inorganics, Minor, metals Water-quality 1993-04-29 1994-04-14
Nutrient Water-quality 1993-04-19 1994-08-19
Organics, other Water-quality 1993-04-29 1994-05-02
Physical Water-quality 1993-04-19 1994-08-19
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 400040076170302 is associated with an Unsaturated zone in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Water data back to 1993 are available online.

Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
400040076170302 n/a
Site name
SUBSURFACE FLOW (PLOT 2) AT EXHIBIT FARM,LANCASTER n/a
Site type
Unsaturated zone
SB-UZ
DMS latitude 400040 n/a
DMS longitude 0761703 n/a
Decimal latitude 40.01120958 n/a
Decimal longitude -76.28384749 n/a
Latitude-longitude method
Interpolated from MAP. M
Latitude-longitude accuracy
Accurate to + or - 5 sec. F
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
Lancaster County 071
Country US n/a
Land net location description n/a
Name of location map LANCASTER n/a
Scale of location map 24000 n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface 287 feet n/a
Method altitude determined Level or other surveyed method. L
Altitude accuracy 1.0 feet n/a
Altitude datum
National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929 NGVD29
Subbasin hydrologic unit
Lower Susquehanna 02050306
Drainage basin
n/a
Topographic setting
Hillside
S
Flags for instruments at site NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN n/a
Date of first construction
n/a
Date site established or inventoried 19921201 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 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 444222200 n/a