Paxton Creek near Penbrook, Pa.
Discharge Measurement: USGS 01571005 Paxton Creek near Glenwood, PA
Overview
- Station Id: 01571005
- County: Dauphin
- Drainage Area: 12 sq.mi.
- Station Coordinates: 40.306°, -76.856°
- Period of record: 10/84 - 12/88, 10/91 - 9/95, 2012 - present
Location Description
Site located at Kohn Road near Glenwood.
Data
- Data File Description
- PAX8495.txt October 1984 to December 1995
- PAX.xlsx January 2012 to present
2021 Land Use
| Urban | Agricultural | Agricultural | Forested | Other | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Row Crops | Pasture/Hay | Total | ||||
| 68% | 1% | 9% | 10% | 22% | 1% | |
Site Drainage Area
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Loads
Concentrations
Data
2023 Flow Normalized Trends
| Trend period (Water Year*) | 2013-2023 |
|---|---|
| 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 | |
| Paxton 2013-2023 | 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 | -0.0685371 | 0.8137255 | L | DN | -0.0013256 | 0.8529412 | L | DN |
| Nitrate-Nitrite | -0.1954151 | 0.9901961 | HL | DN | -0.0045281 | 0.9901961 | HL | DN |
| Ammonia | 0.0062148 | 0.9509804 | HL | UP | 0.0001406 | 0.8921569 | L | UP |
| Dissolved Nitrogen | -0.1444775 | 0.9705882 | HL | DN | -0.0033002 | 0.9705882 | HL | DN |
| Nitrate-Nitrite | -0.1918260 | 0.9901961 | HL | DN | -0.0042442 | 0.9901961 | HL | DN |
| Ammonia | -0.0001648 | 0.5588235 | ALAN | NS | 0.0000218 | 0.6960784 | L | UP |
| Total Phosphorus | 0.0171819 | 0.9901961 | HL | UP | 0.0008478 | 0.9509804 | HL | UP |
| Particulate Phosphorus | 0.0110852 | 0.9705882 | HL | UP | 0.0005828 | 0.9313725 | VL | UP |
| Dissolved Phosphorus | 0.0059936 | 0.9705882 | HL | UP | 0.0001644 | 0.9705882 | HL | UP |
| Orthophosphate | -0.0001747 | 0.5196078 | ALAN | NS | 0.0000156 | 0.5392157 | ALAN | NS |
| Total Organic Carbon | 0.2377107 | 0.8921569 | L | UP | 0.0019395 | 0.5588235 | ALAN | NS |
| Total Suspended Solids | 9.7040598 | 0.8529412 | L | UP | 0.8223776 | 0.7549020 | L | UP |
| Suspended Sediment | 24.8185151 | 0.9901961 | HL | UP | 1.2224551 | 0.8725490 | L | UP |