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Post by scotview on Oct 2, 2006 20:47:53 GMT
I've noticed todat that the Dee river level data has stopped updating on the Fish Dee website.
Dont you think that an organisation such as SEPA with their not insignificant budget could manage REAL TIME data logging of all their river stations.
Surely a few tweaks on their telemetry & database software would not be so difficult in this day & age.
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Post by williegunn on Oct 2, 2006 21:05:08 GMT
I think you might find the fish(river) sites only update once a day during the close season
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Post by scotview on Oct 2, 2006 21:22:48 GMT
Yes I am aware of this but the point is that the river levels on the main SEPA site should be updated at least every hour if not in real time.
This should not be too difficult a task with today's technology.
They must have all this data real time for flood prevention purposes, it's just a case of some software & updating their website (they've got absolutely loads of money)
Rising and falling river level data is probably one of the most important contributors to catching salar.
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Post by williegunn on Oct 2, 2006 21:29:11 GMT
Why do you wish to now the Dee levels? It closed on Saturday
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Post by scotview on Oct 2, 2006 21:35:43 GMT
Because I'm going to the Don tomorrow & I dont have a clue to what height the river is currently running.
The Don level was last collected on SEPA at 4 am this morning
and the chart wasnt updated til 10 am this morning
I dont want to drive 30 miles & find that the Don is in flood.
I use this as one example but I'm sure other fishers, on the Deveron for example, would also find it extremely useful if the SEPA site was real time.
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Post by williegunn on Oct 2, 2006 21:46:07 GMT
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Post by scotview on Oct 2, 2006 21:51:48 GMT
Blimey,
just what the doctor ordered !!
Many thanks WG. (any more Gems like this)
Do you take my point however that the SEPA site should be the place to go as a one stop shop and the data could be real time (it WILL happen one day)
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Post by williegunn on Oct 2, 2006 21:57:12 GMT
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Post by scotview on Oct 2, 2006 21:57:59 GMT
Have examined the FishScotland site more closely.
Maybe this is a more appropriate location for this data than SEPA.
Presumably the Deveron etal will be added in due course.
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Post by williegunn on Oct 2, 2006 22:11:49 GMT
Presumably the Deveron etal will be added in due course. Possibly but the fees are high. |
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Post by jock on Oct 3, 2006 7:12:04 GMT
You will find River levels for most rivers at www.sepa.org.uk/data/river_levels/data.htm I think the data is collected about every 15 mins but only updated daily. The Deveron at Avochie at 04:30 this morning can be seen to be falling and was sitting just below 1M. I use this site a lot and have found it very useful. I don't know of anywhere you can get realyime info on river levels. |
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Post by williegunn on Oct 3, 2006 7:53:35 GMT
Jock if you had looked at the Sepa site yesterday it was still showing info for the 29th of September.....................the rise had not even started.
Real time Frank's your man.
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Post by Fruin on Oct 3, 2006 11:41:10 GMT
A few friends and I contacted SEPA seperately claiming to be canoists, walkers etc. as well as fisherman. The purpose was to try to get them to increase the update frequency on their webpage. This was some time ago and obviously had no effect  |
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Post by wilbert on Oct 3, 2006 15:05:04 GMT
I would kill for a website like the SEPA one down here in England and Wales. We partly fund the EA with our rod license which is £65 a year for a salmon and sea trout license and £24 for non migratory trout, eels and coarse fish and if we want river level data we have to ring a premium rate number to get the data and this is updated at approx 0500 ans 1700 each day but not always so you end up paying again to hear yesterdays level. OK the SEPA site is not perfect but its a whole lot better than what we have south of the border.
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Post by Fruin on Oct 3, 2006 15:07:32 GMT
Malcolm,
Do you know what the fees are?
I want to know whether it is affordable for an assosciation.
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Post by williegunn on Oct 3, 2006 15:33:48 GMT
The fees are based on the ratable value of the river, you would need to get a whole river "on board" Then you would need a franchise manager to run the thing day to day.
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Post by Fruin on Oct 3, 2006 18:31:06 GMT
Ta
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