USGS Station 01570500
SUSQUEHANNA RIVER AT HARRISBURG, PA
(National stream-quality accounting network, radiochemical and tritium program)
SUSQUEHANNA RIVER BASIN
Latitude: 40^15'17"; Longitude: 76^53'11"
Hydrologic Unit Code: 02050305
Drainage area: 24,100 square miles.
Location: Dauphin County, on east bank of City Island, 60 ft downstream from Market Street bridge in Harrisburg, 3,670 ft upstream from sanitary dam, and 1.7 mi up- stream from Paxton Creek.
Period of Record: October 1890 to current year. 1928. WSP 1702: 1953 (total runoff in inches), 1958 (1957 calendar year mean discharge).
Gage Information: Water-stage recorder. Concrete control since Aug. 29, 1916. Datum of gage is 290.01 ft above sea level. Prior to Oct. 1, 1928, nonrecording gage at Walnut Street Bridge 600 ft upstream, and Oct. 1, 1928, to Aug. 31, 1975, water-stage recorder at site 3,170 ft downstream, all gages at same datum.
Use these links to retrieve
Monthly Streamflow hydrograph for this station,
;
Table of Current Streamflow conditions, or
tab-separated ASCII file of monthly data.
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