Stream gage info

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We drifted to this discussion on another thread when Steve mentioned Ben's photo showing the stream gage station knocked over at Mount, so I thought I would continue the topic here.

I wrote my source in Trenton and as usual he responded. From his letter I was able to realize that we are referring to these station boxes improperly. The actual name for them are "shelters".

He informed me that the next time they are out they will lock the shelter that Steve and I found open. He also wanted to know which one Ben found knocked over so they could fix that. I wrote him tonight and told him it was in Mount.

My actual question to him was that I was wondering if they are going to have more of the stations go high tech, and he said they were. All new stations will have satellite telemetry. They are going to add telemetry to 5 more ground water wells for drought monitoring. And he told me where they are going to do a three years study on two rivers off of 206.

Guy
 

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That's really interesting Guy. Satellites, wow! I wonder how much data these things collect and how often it is updated? You'd think it's the sort of thing where it could record a full day's data on disk then use a cell phone connection for a couple minutes to transmit every night. But maybe satellite transmission has gotten cheap?
 

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Boyd said:
That's really interesting Guy. Satellites, wow! I wonder how much data these things collect and how often it is updated? You'd think it's the sort of thing where it could record a full day's data on disk then use a cell phone connection for a couple minutes to transmit every night. But maybe satellite transmission has gotten cheap?

It is collected every day. Here are the results for some of them in NJ. Click on the dots on the map of NJ. Check out Harrisville and others.

http://water.usgs.gov/cgi-bin/waterwatch?map_type=real&state=nj


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BEHR655 said:
The report on the Batsto gage was posted at 7:15 this evening. Now THAT'S fresh.

Steve

It sure is :)

But the charts looks like things are getting dry.

Guy
 
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