Time to Upgrade Your Stream Gauge Station? Your Best Bet for Water Flow and Quality Data Collection!

March 18, 2022 adcp , current profiler , discharge data , doppler , flow meter , flowtracker , flowtracker2 , hydrology , m9 , sontek , stream discharge , stream gage , stream gauge
Think it might be about time to upgrade that outdated, aging gauging station? There are a number of options out there for the collection of long-term monitoring data, maintenance requirements and budget – all important considerations to help water monitoring agencies understand historical trends and make science-backed decisions.

In this video, Application Specialist and Regional Sales/Support Manager, Diego Davis talks about the advantages of various instruments you might use based on site conditions, data management and precision of data required. Diego starts with the basics – collecting continuous level data with self-contained systems and a logger – to more advanced instruments that calculate accurate discharge and water quality parameters.