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Water year 2024: 2024-10-01 to 2025-09-30

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USGS Water-Year Summary 2024

01574500 CODORUS CREEK AT SPRING GROVE, PA

LOCATION - Lat 39°52'43", long 76°51'13" referenced to North American Datum of 1927, York County, PA, Hydrologic Unit 02050306, on right bank 15 ft downstream from abutments of dismantled county highway bridge on Township Route 452, 0.1 mi downstream from small left-bank tributary, 0.3 mi downstream from east boundary of Spring Grove, and 7.0 mi southwest of York.

DRAINAGE AREA - 75.5 mi².

REVISIONS HISTORY - WSP 1302: 1929-30. WSP 1502: 1932(M), 1933, 1935(M), 1940, 1942(M), 1943, 1944-46(M), 1951(M), 1955(m).

SURFACE-WATER RECORDS

PERIOD OF RECORD - May 1929 to September 1964, November 1965 to current year. October 1962 to September 1964, November 1965 to September 1968, published as West Branch Codorus Creek at Spring Grove.

GAGE - Water-stage recorder and crest-stage gage. Concrete control was utilized from November 1965 to June 2021. Datum of gage is 430.86 ft above National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929. Prior to Jan 18, 1930, non-recording gage, Jan 18, 1930, to Sep 9, 1941, water-stage recorder at site 0.9 mi upstream, and Sep 10, 1941 to Sep 30, 1964, water-stage recorder at site 0.8 mi upstream, all at datum 5.64 ft higher. Nov 1 to Dec 20, 1965, non-recording gage about 40 ft downstream at unknown datum, Dec 21, 1965 to Mar 31, 1966, non-recording gage at present site and datum. Satellite telemetry at station.

COOPERATION - Records of change in lake contents and daily diversion furnished by Pixelle Specialty Solutions (formerly P.H. Glatfelter Company). Station established and maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey in cooperation with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District.

REMARKS -

Daily discharges include water diverted around station by waste water treatment plant of Pixelle Specialty Solutions (formerly P.H. Glatfelter Company). Instantaneous data reflect actual streamflow passing the gage and do not include diverted streamflow. Flow regulated by dam on Lake Marburg (station 01574390) about 20 miles upstream. Records for water years 2014-2016 are fair except those for estimated daily discharges, which are poor. Records for water year 2017 are fair; no estimated discharges. Records for water years 2018-2020 are fair except estimated discharge, which is poor. Records for water year 2021 are fair except discharges greater than 1000 cfs and estimated discharge, which is poor. Records for water years 2022-2023 are fair except discharges greater than 1200 cfs and estimated discharge, which is poor.

Discharge (w/ Pixelle Diversion) time series created in Aquarius to calculate a total daily mean. Time series is calculated using the daily mean discharge from Codorus Creek and adding the daily mean diversions provided by Pixelle. Pixelle provides these diversions at the end of each water year.