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Important Inventory Page

USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Information Water-quality 2003-11-21 2003-11-21
Inorganics, Major, Non-metals Water-quality 2003-11-21 2003-11-21
Physical Groundwater Levels, Water-quality 2003-11-21 2003-11-21
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 400159077292601 is associated with a Well in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. Water data back to 2003 are available online.

Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
400159077292601 n/a
Site name
CU 968 n/a
Site type
Well
GW
DMS latitude 400159.01 n/a
DMS longitude 0772925.61 n/a
Decimal latitude 40.0330583 n/a
Decimal longitude -77.4904472 n/a
Latitude-longitude method
Differentially corrected Global Positioning System. D
Latitude-longitude accuracy
Accurate to + or - .5 sec (PLGR/PPS GPS). 5
Latitude-longitude datum
North American Datum of 1983 NAD83
Decimal Latitude-longitude datum North American Datum of 1983 NAD83
District
Pennsylvania 42
State
Pennsylvania 42
County
Cumberland County 041
Country US n/a
Land net location description n/a
Name of location map WALNUT BOTTOM n/a
Scale of location map 24000 n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface 776 feet n/a
Method altitude determined Differentially corrected Global Positioning System. D
Altitude accuracy 005 feet n/a
Altitude datum
National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929 NGVD29
Subbasin hydrologic unit
Lower Susquehanna-Swatara 02050305
Drainage basin
n/a
Topographic setting
Hilltop
H
Flags for instruments at site NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN n/a
Date of first construction
200006 n/a
Date site established or inventoried 20031121 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
Data have been checked by the reporting agency. C
Data-other GW files YY Y Y n/a
National aquifer n/a
Local aquifer Elbrook Formation 371ELBK
Local aquifer type
Confined multiple aquifers M
Well depth 200 feet n/a
Hole depth
200 feet n/a
Source of depth data D n/a
Project number 2476B2T n/a