Clarion River at Piney, PA

The Clarion River at Piney (USGS 03030515, WQN-0821) has a drainage area of 951 square miles. The site is about 5.5 miles WSW of Clarion, PA. It is one of about 124 water-quality sampling sites throughout Pennsylvania that constitutes Pennsylvania's Statewide Surface Water-Quality Monitoring Network (WQN), a cooperative program between Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection and the USGS. About one third of the sites are sampled every month, and the remaining sites are sample every-other month.