More on the Fort Gauge

Brian,

Here's the deal. The velocity meter that was at the site was older technology and in the last few weeks it was starting to give us some erratic data. So we decided to update the velocity meter with newer and hopefully improved technology. We made that conversion on Tuesday.

During the switch over the datalogger program got messed up so the site quit recording data. This morning we were able to fix the datalogger program so the site is once again collecting data. Because of the change, the data we collect is now different than it had been so we need to reconfigure some things to get the data back on the web - it's not a huge deal but it will take a little time - I'm hoping to have the data back up by tomorrow.

The second issue with the new meter is we need to calibrate it. We have collected 2 measurements now and we will use those to make a rough calibration. We can use that rough calibration to get the discharge back on the web - again hopefully by tomorrow.

I guess what you need to be aware of is that for a while anyway we won't have a 'firm' velocity rating so the final data could look considerably different from what's on the web. The bright side of all this is that once we do have a final velocity rating we're hopeful that the data will be much better than it was in the past.

Thanks for your patience,

Rob

UPDATE 1
We just finished up with the site and the data are now on the web. I want to reiterate that at this point the velocity/discharge calibration is incomplete so I'm sure it will change some but it looks to be reasonable.
Rob