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Entiat Enhanced
Stream Flow
Monitoring
Stream flow data are essential to determining
the amount of water available to meet in-stream and
out-of-stream resource needs. Discharge data are also an important
part of water quality and flood emergency monitoring efforts.
In
September 2002, the Cascadia Conservation District helped the Washington
Department of Ecology Stream Hydrology Unit install eight continuous
recording gages and six staff gages in the Entiat River watershed.
We are
currently funded to assist the Department of Ecology with the operation and
maintenance of the Entiat gaging network, and collection of stream flow
data. Near real-time data are available from the continuous recording
gages. A telemetry station logs stage height, or water level, every
fifteen minutes and transmits this data in 3-hour blocks to the Department of
Ecology via a satellite transmitter. The flow data are automatically
imported into a stream flow database and published to the Department of
Ecology's flow monitoring website.
The Cascadia
Conservation District also assists the United States Geologic Survey, or USGS,
with the operation and maintenance of three continuous recording gages in the
Entiat watershed: two on the Entiat River
and one on the Mad
River. Real time data from
USGS stream flow monitoring gages is available on the USGS National Water
Information website. |
