Description of Telemetered Gauging Station

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Station Number: G8150321

Station Name: Peel Creek Upstream of Spencer Road

This site is located 600 m upstream of Spencer Road at Darwin River. It was established in January 2004 to provide hydrologic and water quality data for an undeveloped catchment in the Finniss River Basin that flows into Darwin Harbour.

The instrumentation at the site measures rainfall, river height, turbidity and automatically takes water samples for physical analysis. The river height is recorded in metres, to a local gauge datum (GD). This data is relayed back to the Departments’ Hydrographic unit in Darwin via telemetry.

Peel Creek at this site does not flow in the dry season but continues to flow throughout the wet season in an average rainfall year. The largest event recorded at this site was in March 2004, reading 5.9 m on the gauge.

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