Lower Delaware -- Cataloging Unit 02040202

• Lower Delaware Accounting Unit 020402
  
• Delaware Subregion 0204
  
• Mid-Atlantic Region 02 (There are 95 cataloging units in this region.)
  The state composition by area is 62.9% New Jersey, 37.1% Pennsylvania, 0.0% Delaware.
  

  I. Graphical Locater Maps

  Roads

  Water Only

  8 Digit HUCs

  The area of this HUC in these maps is 2782.2 km² ( 1074.7 mi² ) [% in USA = 41.97, % in Region = 49.47]
  The area from the USGS is 1050 mi².
  

  II. Flow Connections (upstream and downstream units)

  III. Named places in this watershed (total = 3909)

  IV. Elevation Analysis

  This analysis is based on 1111962 elevations on a 50 m grid within the area of this HUC.
  The mean elevation is 38.2 m ( 125.3 ft ) [% in USA = 7.34, % in Region = 28.42]
  The elevation standard deviation is 35.8 m ( 117.5 ft ) [% in USA = 27.62, % in Region = 29.47]
  The coefficient of variation is 93.7 %.
  The vertical relief is 183.0 m ( 600.4 ft ) [% in USA = 25.77, % in Region = 28.42]

  Elevation Percentiles

  	0 %	10 %	20 %	30 %	40 %	50 %	60 %	70 %	80 %	90 %	100 %
  meters	0.0	3.0	12.0	15.8	22.3	29.1	30.0	39.5	61.0	91.4	183.0
  feet	0.0	9.8	39.4	51.8	73.2	95.5	98.4	129.6	200.1	299.9	600.4

  

  V. Map Line Analysis

  Note- percentiles are for the feature density, not for the raw total lengths.
  

  line type	km	mi	km/km²	mi/mi²	% in USA	% in Region
  Perennial Shoreline	823.7	511.9	0.296	0.476	90.29	76.84
  Intermittent Shoreline	0.0	0.0	0.000	0.000	26.95	49.47
  Perennial Streams	1629.1	1012.5	0.586	0.942	90.19	77.89
  Intermittent Streams	8.8	5.4	0.003	0.005	3.98	22.11
  Canals	5.1	3.2	0.002	0.003	49.83	55.79
  1° roads	523.8	325.5	0.188	0.303	99.19	93.68
  2° roads	248.6	154.5	0.089	0.144	97.92	90.53
  3° roads	517.9	321.9	0.186	0.299	90.62	74.74
  4° roads	14818.4	9209.7	5.326	8.570	99.48	95.79
  Total Roads	16108.7	10011.6	5.790	9.316	99.48	95.79
  Railroads	792.4	492.5	0.285	0.458	99.53	96.84
  Pipes and Powerlines	3.6	2.2	0.001	0.002	11.56	6.32

  
  Of the natural water in this HUC, 0.36% (by length) is intermittent [% in USA = 3.27, % in Region = 18.95]

  VI. Other sites

  • EPA- Surf Your Watershed - Index of Watershed Indicators
  • USGS- Science in Your Watershed - Selected Realtime Streamflow Stations
  • CTIC- Known Your Watershed

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  1999 SEPT 4, Last updated on 2003 JAN 23
  
  D.L. Gustafson, dlg@rapid.msu.montana.edu