Conestoga River at Conestoga, PA
Overview
- Station Id: 01576754
- County: Lancaster
- Drainage Area: 470 sq.mi.
- Station Coordinates: 39.939°, -76.367°
- Period of record: 10/84 to present
Location Description
Station and gage are located on south bank, 2.6 miles up from the mouth of the Conestoga River and 1,500 feet downstream of the Little Conestoga Creek.
Data
- Data File Description
- CON.xlsx October 2004 to present
2016 Land Use
| Urban | Agricultural | Agricultural | Forested | Other | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Row Crops | Pasture/Hay | Total | ||||
| 27% | 37% | 11% | 48% | 22% | 3% | |
Site Drainage Area
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Loads
Concentrations
Data
2022 Flow Normalized Trends
| Trend period (Water Year*) | 1985-2022 |
|---|---|
| Trend & Direction | NS – Not significant, UP – Increasing trend, DOWN – Decreasing trend |
| Hypothesis Test significance level (i.e. α) | 0.1 |
| * Water Year runs from October 1st to September 30th of the following year | |
| Likelihood Descriptor | Range of values** |
|---|---|
| HL (Highly Likely) | ≥0.95 and ≤1.00 |
| VL (Very Likely) | ≥0.90 and <0.95 |
| L (Likely) | ≥0.66 and <0.90 |
| ALAN (About as Likely as Not) | >0.33 and <0.66 |
| ** Values represent the posterior mean estimate of the probability of a trend | |
| Conestoga 1985-2022 | Flow Normalized Concentration (mg/L) | Flow Normalized Load (Millions Kg/yr) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Likelihood Test | Likelihood Test | |||||||
| Parameter | Change | Value | Descriptor | Trend | Change | Value | Descriptor | Trend |
| Total Nitrogen | -2.6011682 | 0.9901961 | HL | DWN | -2.0039803 | 0.9901961 | HL | DWN |
| Nitrate-Nitrite | -1.5707721 | 0.9901961 | HL | DWN | -0.9951538 | 0.9901961 | HL | DWN |
| Ammonia | -0.3361749 | 0.9901961 | HL | DWN | -0.2637026 | 0.9901961 | HL | DWN |
| Dissolved Nitrogen | -1.6740413 | 0.9705882 | HL | DWN | -1.1023195 | 0.9901961 | HL | DWN |
| Nitrate-Nitrite | -1.3620685 | 0.9313725 | VL | DWN | -0.8191593 | 0.9509804 | HL | DWN |
| Ammonia | -0.3195844 | 0.9901961 | HL | DWN | -0.2538872 | 0.9901961 | HL | DWN |
| Total Phosphorus | -0.3562968 | 0.9901961 | HL | DWN | -0.2566095 | 0.9313725 | VL | DWN |
| Particulate Phosphorus | -0.1449527 | 0.9705882 | HL | DWN | -0.1388056 | 0.8137255 | L | DWN |
| Dissolved Phosphorus | -0.1990711 | 0.9901961 | HL | DWN | -0.1064891 | 0.9901961 | HL | DWN |
| Orthophosphate | -0.1894646 | 0.9901961 | HL | DWN | -0.0880754 | 0.9901961 | HL | DWN |
| Total Organic Carbon | -5.9002029 | 0.9901961 | HL | DWN | -4.6629037 | 0.9901961 | HL | DWN |
| Total Suspended Solids | -74.3064712 | 0.9705882 | HL | DWN | -111.2677074 | 0.9509804 | HL | DWN |
| Suspended Sediment | -110.1117203 | 0.9509804 | HL | DWN | -179.0437019 | 0.9509804 | HL | DWN |