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Telemetered Gauging Stations
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Description of Telemetered Gauging Station
Station Number: G8140040
Station Name: Daly River at Mount Nancar
This site is located 13 km (by river) upstream of Daly River Police Station. It was established in December 1966 as part of a program to investigate the water resources in the Northern Territory. It has since been incorporated into the Departments’ Flood Warning Telemetry Network, providing near ‘real time’ river height and rainfall data. This data is available to provide timely advice regarding the prediction of flood events that may affect downstream communities, such as the Daly River Community.
The instrumentation at the site measures rainfall and river height. River height is recorded in metres to a local gauge datum (GD), but is also available in Australian Height Datum (AHD). This data is relayed back to the Departments’ Hydrographic unit in Darwin via telemetry.
The Daly river at this site has a base flow in excess of 20 m3/s, (Cumecs) maintained throughout the dry season by spring flows. The largest event recorded at this site was in February 1998, reading 19.56 m on the gauge.