River Gauges

Please Note:This section of the site is a work in progress and the layout and content will change, I just haven't had a whole bunch of time, so I decided I'd share these sweet, sweet graphs ASAP with ye (we'll get the email alerts, xml, RSS etc. sorted when we can). Untill then you can see all the technical details on Daithí Powers' page. There are more river gauges to come, the system is set up, and so adding new gauges is easy as pie. The aim now should be to get a nationwide network of them!

Clare Glens Gauge

Gauge Credit: Mike Sweeney

River Flesk Gauge

Gauge Credit: Daithí Power

Annamoe (Avonmore) River Gauge

Gauge Credit: Eoin O'Raghallaigh

How often is this graph updated?

The unit at the river measures the level every 15 minutes and stores the data locally. Once a day just after 09:00 (summer time), the unit sends an sms message containing all of the data for the previous 24 hours. It takes about another 15min for the data to be converted to an email, delivered to the server and processed to generate the graphs. The online graphs are therefore updated only once a day at about 09:20.

Other Credits

Thanks to Daithí Power for creating the gauge design, Ian Roche for the graphing and email poping software and Tim Power for the mechanical engineering and Seán McIntyre for the civil engineering.