Checklist for Potomac/Mid-Atlantic Hydrologic Observatory

Name: Conococheauge Creek at Fairview MD

Institution:

This project: ICPRB (reports) in cooperation with the MD USGS (monitoring), PA Department of Environmental Protection

(Data is also collected by the MD Department of Natural Resources for other projects)

Number of watersheds: 1

For each watershed where monitoring is going on, provide the following (copy to additional pages as needed)

Geographic coordinates for a reference point in the watershed or at the basin outlet:

Latitude: 39∞42'59.0"

Longitude: 77∞49'29.2"

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Number of sites being monitored within the watershed, with the range or average size of drainage areas (where relevant): 494.00 square miles

Parameters being monitored

(list by category, e.g. streamflow; groundwater levels; meteorological variables ≠ precip, relative humidity, wind speed, components of radiation balance; temperature; water quality constituents ≠ nutrients, metals, organics, microorganisms, etc.; if there are different suites monitored at different sites, give approximate number of sites where each group of parameters is being monitored)

Stream flow and other physical properties, nutrients, sediment

Period(s) of record:

1945 - present

Frequency of record:

Flow: USGS gage ≠ instantaneous

Water quality parameters: at least monthly

Titles of current project or projects or scientific and management objectives of monitoring:

Nutrient and Suspended Sediment Loads from the Pennsylvania Portion of the Potomac River Basin

To provide nutrient and suspended sediment loading data for the Conococheague Creek basin in sufficient detail to: establish a sound database for government, agriculture, industry and the public to most effectively plan, implement, and evaluate immediate and long range nutrient reduction efforts, and provide nutrient loading data for the Chesapeake Bay watershed model.

Names of Principal Investigators on current project:

Andrea Buckley, Project Manager, ICPRB

Dave Lewis, Administrative Assistant, PADEP

Robert James Jr., Surface-Water Analysis Section Chief, USGS