River Gauges

Kayaking enthusiasts wanted to know when river were running, given the nature of the Irish climate this couldn't be be done using rainfall data alone. The gauge project aims to provide a cheap, reliable solution to this problem. By publicly posting the the schematics and giving instructions to build the gauges its is hoped that over time a number of gauges will be spread across the country.

History

The entire project was concocted up by Daithí Power, Daithí designed and built the very first gauge and placed it on the Flesk River

The Flesk Gauge webpage [1] soon followed. The page provide a graph showing the level of the Flesk for the previous 24hrs.

The project itself was a great success, but the real success came with Daithí publishing the plans of the gauge system and offering advice to people about how to build one of their own.

From there the project migrated to Irishwhitewater.com where several more gauges were added.