This week, the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services (NHDES) installed a CrowdHydrology staff gauge positioned below the Willow Street Bridge on Beaver Brook to enhance local flood forecasting and response capabilities while also fostering community engagement in citizen science. The installation is the result of collaboration between the Town of Pelham, NHDES, and a state-federal interagency flood risk management team called the New Hampshire Silver Jackets. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers supports state-led Silver Jackets teams through its flood risk management program.
Volunteers can participate by simply reading the water level on the gauge and texting the station number, along with the reading, to the phone number provided onsite. These submissions are incorporated into a water-level database. Since its installation, water-level measurements at the new site have been recorded weekly.
For more information about the project, see here.
