Description of Telemetered Gauging Station

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Station Number: G8140063

Station Name: Douglas R. Downstream Old Douglas Homestead

This site is located on the Douglas River, approximately 54 km W of Pine Creek. It was established in 1957, 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 data.

The instrumentation at the site measures river height and rainfall. River height is recorded in metres, to Australian Height Datum (AHD). This data is relayed back to the Departments’ Hydrographic unit in Darwin via telemetry. This data is automatically forwarded to the Bureau of Meteorology.

The maximum recorded river height at this station was 10.050 m, recorded on 5th of April, 2006.

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