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Important Inventory Page

USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Information Water-quality 1965-07-29 1980-09-22
Inorganics, Major, Metals Water-quality 1965-07-29 1980-09-22
Inorganics, Major, Non-metals Water-quality 1965-07-29 1980-09-22
Inorganics, Minor, Non-metals Water-quality 1980-09-22 1980-09-22
Inorganics, Minor, metals Water-quality 1965-07-29 1980-09-22
Nutrient Water-quality 1965-07-29 1980-09-22
Organics, other Water-quality 1980-09-22 1980-09-22
Organics, pesticide Water-quality 1980-09-22 1980-09-22
Physical Groundwater Levels, Water-quality 1948-03-30 2024-10-21
n/a USGS Active Groundwater Level Network Site 1948-01-01 2021-01-01
n/a USGS Annual Water Data Reports Site 2012-01-01 2013-01-01
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 400217075142101 is associated with a Well in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. Water data back to 1948 are available online.

Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
400217075142101 n/a
Site name
PH 540 n/a
Site type
Well
GW
DMS latitude 400217.5 n/a
DMS longitude 0751418.1 n/a
Decimal latitude 40.03819444 n/a
Decimal longitude -75.2383611 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
Pennsylvania 42
State
Pennsylvania 42
County
Philadelphia County 101
Country US n/a
Land net location description n/a
Name of location map GERMANTOWN n/a
Scale of location map 24000 n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface 170 feet n/a
Method altitude determined Interpolated from topographic map. M
Altitude accuracy 10 feet n/a
Altitude datum
National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929 NGVD29
Subbasin hydrologic unit
Schuylkill 02040203
Drainage basin
n/a
Topographic setting
Hillside
S
Flags for instruments at site NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN n/a
Date of first construction
19480329 n/a
Date site established or inventoried 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 YYYYNYNN n/a
National aquifer Piedmont and Blue Ridge crystalline-rock aquifers N400PDMBRX
Local aquifer Wissahickon Formation, Oligoclase Mica Schist 300WSCKO
Local aquifer type
n/a
Well depth 127 feet n/a
Hole depth
n/a
Source of depth data n/a
Project number n/a