Lower Susquehanna -- Cataloging Unit 02050306

• Lower Susquehanna Accounting Unit 020503
  
• Susquehanna Subregion 0205
  
• Mid-Atlantic Region 02 (There are 95 cataloging units in this region.)
  The state composition by area is 89.5% Pennsylvania, 10.5% Maryland.
  

  I. Graphical Locater Maps

  Roads

  Water Only

  8 Digit HUCs

  The area of this HUC in these maps is 6500.3 km² ( 2510.9 mi² ) [% in USA = 89.96, % in Region = 98.95]
  The area from the USGS is 2440 mi².
  

  II. Flow Connections (upstream and downstream units)

  III. Named places in this watershed (total = 4092)

  IV. Elevation Analysis

  This analysis is based on 2596407 elevations on a 50 m grid within the area of this HUC.
  The mean elevation is 161.9 m ( 531.2 ft ) [% in USA = 20.89, % in Region = 45.26]
  The elevation standard deviation is 59.7 m ( 195.9 ft ) [% in USA = 43.82, % in Region = 37.89]
  The coefficient of variation is 36.9 %.
  The vertical relief is 563.9 m ( 1850.0 ft ) [% in USA = 56.18, % in Region = 53.68]

  Elevation Percentiles

  	0 %	10 %	20 %	30 %	40 %	50 %	60 %	70 %	80 %	90 %	100 %
  meters	0.0	98.5	121.0	123.8	143.0	152.0	167.2	183.0	208.0	239.8	563.9
  feet	0.0	323.2	397.0	406.2	469.2	498.7	548.5	600.4	682.4	786.7	1850.0

  

  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	779.7	484.6	0.120	0.193	62.53	33.68
  Intermittent Shoreline	3.5	2.2	0.001	0.001	45.19	82.11
  Perennial Streams	4108.3	2553.3	0.632	1.017	93.75	84.21
  Intermittent Streams	147.8	91.9	0.023	0.037	9.52	40.00
  Canals	0.0	0.0	0.000	0.000	35.81	38.95
  1° roads	340.3	211.5	0.052	0.084	90.38	62.11
  2° roads	238.1	148.0	0.037	0.059	66.60	41.05
  3° roads	1584.2	984.6	0.244	0.392	95.88	91.58
  4° roads	15227.5	9464.0	2.343	3.769	95.31	78.95
  Total Roads	17390.2	10808.1	2.675	4.305	95.83	78.95
  Railroads	718.6	446.6	0.111	0.178	89.91	76.84
  Pipes and Powerlines	398.7	247.8	0.061	0.099	79.91	70.53

  
  Of the natural water in this HUC, 3.00% (by length) is intermittent [% in USA = 8.53, % in Region = 42.11]

  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