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Groundwater

Measuring groundwater level or depth-to-water is critically important for identifying long term trends, including declining water levels, saltwater intrusion, seasonal variations, aquifer recharge, artificial aquifer storage and recovery, and level...

Remote Water Quality Monitoring in South Africa

Situated in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa, the Xstrata Coal South Africa (XCSA) runs several open cut and underground mining operations producing thermal coal.To ensure their mining operations do not affect the surrounding natural water...

65 new OTT ecoLog 500 stations in Denmark for a crop cutting research project

The associated sets of water level and water flow data, together with detailed records of the physical conditions, can form the basis for calculating the specific effects of the crop cutting on the water level and the manning number (expressing the...

Dam Monitoring in South Africa

The purpose of the Komati River Basin Development Project is to ensure the availability of water in order to promote economic development in the region. OTT’s part of the project was to supply dataloggers for the monitoring of the river flows into...

Groundwater Monitoring around Hydraulic Fracturing Sites in Colorado

Hydraulic fracturing or ‘Fracking’ has become more prevalent and controversial in the US in recent years. More than 90 percent of new wells in the US are completed using this method. While it is endorsed by some as a game-changer that promises an...

Monitoring ditch water quality using OTT ecoN, Hydrolab HL4 and XLink 500

The RIVM in the Netherlands is using the OTT ecoN and the Hydrolab HL4, connected to an XLink 500 datalogger, to monitor the temporal variation of nutrients in ditch water. The data is sent to Hydromet Cloud. The goal of this project (WaterSNIP) is...

Flood Monitoring

While some areas are more prone to flooding than others, the establishment of flood monitoring systems near every major river or water body provides important information that helps protect property and lives. Of course, the most effective flood...

Mine Water Treatment Relies on Borehole Loggers

For the last nine years, Severn Trent Services, has managed a contract for mine water treatment across the Coal Authority estate, including 73 mine water treatment schemes in England, Scotland and Wales. These schemes take the form of three types:...

Groundwater Monitoring Underpins Management of the Great Fen, UK

In 2001, five organizations came together to set out a vision for the Great Fen, with the aim of providing a more sustainable future for the area. In many respects, this work focuses on restoration by managing water levels, so a network of monitoring...

OTT Water Level Logger Used in Small Irrigation Channels in Valencia, Spain

The irrigation sector in the Valencia area was forced to start measuring the levels in their channels. For this a simple system was required and a very discrete installation needed due to high chances of vandalism and low budgets available from the...

Nutrient Monitoring

Continuous monitoring of nutrient levels provides crucial information about daily, seasonal and event based changes in water quality conditions, and can be a strong indicator on the overall health of the water body.  In recent years, monitoring of...

Agriculture & Irrigation

OTT Hydromet sensors can provide key information on trend identification and regulatory compliance for water quality and quantity parameters around agriculture and irrigation activities. OTT water level and flow sensors can measure the discharge of...

Village installs local flood warning system | Oxton - Nottinghamshire

A village in Nottinghamshire has installed an advanced river monitoring system from OTT Hydrometry that automatically issues text (sms) message alarms so that residents can implement flood protection measures. Oxton has a history of flooding problems...

OTT ecoLog 1000 Water Level Logger

The OTT ecoLog 1000 is a self-contained, robust surface and groundwater level logger for measuring water level, temperature, and conductivity. It provides reliable system up-time and accurate measurements while avoiding data gaps. It’s simple to...

Urban Hydrology

Urban Hydrology deals with the specific aspects of the hydrological cycle in urban and industrial settings. This includes all natural water flows as well as the consideration of precipitation, storm water, groundwater, rivers, and lakes, but also the...

Oil & Gas

Monitoring natural water bodies surrounding oil and gas drilling activities like hydraulic fracturing is a key issue in environmental monitoring and regulatory compliance. Hydrolab multiparameter sondes can measure a variety of parameters pertaining...

Surface Water

Measuring water quantity and quality in surface water (open channels, rivers, reservoirs, lakes, and estuaries) is one of the foundations of hydrological monitoring and has been a focus of OTT Hydromet since its first  water current meters were...

Hydropower

Monitoring the impact of Hydropower plant activities on water bodies can be important for regulatory compliance and modeling purposes.Hydrolab instruments can measure total dissolved gas (TDG) levels around Hydropower activities and both Hydrolab and...

Mining

Ensuring that pollutants from mining activities do not enter surrounding natural water bodies is a key issue in environmental monitoring and regulatory compliance. Hydrolab multiparameter sondes can measure a variety of parameters pertaining to...

Sea-Bird Scientific ECOs

The Environmental Characterization Optics (ECO) series of fluorometers delivers both high resolution and wide ranges. The ECO series excels in biological monitoring and dye trace studies. The potted optics block results in long term stability of the...

Weather data for nautical information system

In Lemwerder, Germany at the Weser River, wind direction and speed are measured and transferred in 60 second intervals via the OTT netDL 1000.  The data is transmitted, wireless, over a distance of 600 meters to the radar tower in Ritzenbuettel,...

Meteorology

High-accuracy precipitation data is used for watershed monitoring, airport and highway transportation forecasts,  general weather forecasting,  and Doppler radar ground truthing. OTT Hydromet offers a variety of precipitation measurement...

Buoy-based temperature profiling in the Bavarian Lakes

In summertime a temperature stratification occurs in deep lakes – the surface water is warm, but deep down the water is cold.  This has considerable influence on the nutrient balance and the biological habitat in these lakes. Due to generally higher...

OTT MetSystems

The rugged lockable control cabinet of the OTT MetSystems is designed for automatic meteorological stations. it is equipped with components for power supply as well as with the IP datalogger OTT netDL for saving and remotely transferring...

OTT Z400

The digital counter OTT Z400 is a time-saving device for flow measurements with hydrometric current meters. It automatically records the number of propeller revolutions by counting the impulses. Besides, it can output the velocity of flow immediately...

Control of Dredging Works in the Danube River - Austria

The Austrian waterway management has introduced an automatic system to monitor a series of barges, which calculates the dredged material as a basis for handling invoices of the dredging companies. Before converting to a remote data transmission...

Sutron XLite 9210 Data Logger

Designed for maximum value and functionality, the XLite 9210B is a high performance data recorder and communications device ideal for remote real-time data acquisition, control, and communications. The XLite 9210B datalogger has the ability to...

Remote location requires minimum concept

A leading power supply provider in Austria took on the project of monitoring water levels at a power plant in Montenegro, in two remote locations where no infrastructure is available for installation. On top of that, site visits could only occur...

Water quality monitoring at the "Klingenberg" dam in Saxony, DE

The Klingenberg dam is located in the Free State of Saxony and serves the drinking water supply of Dresden and large parts of the former Weißeritzkreis area. Besides, it contributes to flood protection and, to a small extent, to energy generation. ...

Precipitation Measurement in East Tyrolia High Mountains

The Defereggen Valley's remote location is in the middle of the East Tyrolean high mountain valleys in the Alps. Due to the remote location, extreme weather conditions, and lack of infrastructure, it had not been possible to install an official...

Well monitoring for a water supplier

The municipality company, in city of Luebek, Germany, provides potable water for approximately 120,000 households, all pumped from more than 30 wells.  These wells have water levels as deep as 160 meters.  The water levels of these groundwater wells...

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Rosenheim – Discharge Measurement under challenging conditions

The measurement station in Bad Aibling Triftbach, which is part of the state measurement network operated by WWA Rosenheim on behalf of the Bavarian State Office for the Environment, has been in successful operation for some time now. In 2018 this...

Reservoir Aabach Germany - Continuous monitoring of contact pressure

With a total volume of approximately 20 million cubic meters of water and a length of 450 meters, the reservoir supplies drinking water for 200.000 people in the area and fulfils also an important  function in the flood protection there. With the new...

Modern monitoring network in the Indian Ocean

Three public authorities in Sri Lanka are responsible for various tasks in water management and they all depend on hydro-meteorological data. However, the existing monitoring network was in poor condition and reliable, up-to-date measurement values...

Flood protection program Zulawy, Gdansk – Poland

Zulawy is a region which is located in the delta of Vistula River in north Poland. The area of Zulawy is about 175 000 ha, almost 26% of which is situated below sea level. Because of that, Zulawy has an impressive infrastructure – kilometers of...

New network of weather stations in Sheffield

OTT HydroMet is installing fifteen automatic weather stations as part of the University of Sheffield’s Urban Flows Observatory, which is led by the Departments of Civil and Structural Engineering, and Automatic Control and Systems Engineering (ACSE)....

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OTT netDL Data Logger

The versatile OTT netDL 500 and 1000 data loggers were developed specifically for use in hydrology and meteorology stations. In addition to recording data, the data loggers are extremely low power and offer flexible data transfer options via the...

OTT Hydromet Water Level Solutions

Conductivity, temperature and depth measurements are combined into a single device that easily installs in a 1” or larger well or conduit, and stores the data with a built-in datalogger with 4MB of memory (storage capacity for over 500,000...

Hach LDO® Dissolved Oxygen Sensor

Since 2002, Hach has established itself as the premier provider of luminescent dissolved oxygen (LDO) technology. Only Hydrolab multiparameter sondes feature Hach LDO technology – designed, manufactured, and supported by Hach in Loveland, Colorado....

Flood Water Protection in the City of Buenos Aires

The Arroyo Mendrano is the second largest channeled stream of water running through Buenos Aires. In case of heavy rainfalls it overflows its banks and causes considerable material damage. When the retention basin which had been especially built to...

Bedford Flood Gate Control

Bedford Borough Council have been given responsibility for the management and control of 2 flood gates on the Great Ouse in the center of Bedford. OTT Hydrometry were successful in the tender process and were commissioned to install a monitoring...

News and Pressroom

In recent years the development of flood warning systems has benefited from advances in sensor, datalogger and communications technology. The expansion of mobile telecommunications has meant that more locations now benefit from increased...

Ireland Groundwater Monitoring Program

To fulfill the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD) requirements, a groundwater monitoring program was established by the Environmental Protection Agency of Ireland. This program focuses on providing information to assess the environmental status of...

Stormwater

Recent events involving heavy rainfall in regions away from known flood hotspots show that many cities, towns and villages are having to deal with situations that have never happened in recorded history. Flooding, highways and drainage...

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Continuous Discharge Monitoring in Mecklenburg - Germany

The Wallensteingraben was originally constructed as a channel and is almost 20 km long. In the context of implementing the European Water Framework Directive, goals include improving ecological passability. At the same time a measurement site for the...

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The trusted, all-in-one water level logger and telemetry solution is now available with conductivity measuring capabilities. Discover how the OTT ecoLog 1000 is simplifying groundwater and surface water monitoring. View Benefits

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About Hach Environmental

With a specific product product portfolio Sea-Bird Scientific focuses on water quality monitoring instrumentation in coastal and fresh water applications, combining technology from Sea-Bird Electronics, WET Labs and Satlantic.. Solutions...

New monitoring network for Scottish ports

In the past, the ferries operating off the west coast of Scotland would have to sail to port to assess weather and tidal conditions would allow them to berth alongside the pier.  In efforts to save time, fuel and costs, the Caledonian Maritime Assets...

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OTT Hydromet Cloud

Hydromet Cloud provides secure real-time data access from almost anywhere in the world via HydrometCloud.com and the Hydromet Cloud Mobile App. This includes the backend infrastructure to receive, ingest, decode, process, display, and store...

OTT Hydromet Water Quality Solutions

Continuous monitoring of nutrient levels in water bodies provides critical information about the daily, seasonal and event based changes in water quality conditions.  Nutrient levels also are key indicators on the overall health of the...

OTT Pluvio²L in use for a research project in Antarctica

Close to McMurdo Station in Antarctica, researchers from the University of Colorado, Boulder and the National Center for Atmospheric Research are investigating methods to measure the accumulating snowfall in the harsh Antarctic environment. These...

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Lufft WS100 Radar Precipitation Sensor / Smart Disdrometer

The innovative Lufft WS100 is a rain sensor with radar technology and adjustable heating. Using a 24-GHz Doppler radar, it measures the speed of all forms of condensed water. These include rain, freezing rain, hail, snow and sleet.

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Contact-less and maintenance-free OTT SVR 100

What applications are available for continuous flow measurement in rivers, streams and canals? How do you get reliable measurement results and who guarantees the quality of your data, especially in extreme events with high outflows? In...

Discharge Measurement Deep Within a Cave

Research is currently being conducted in the Hessenhau cave, located in southern Germany. The cave is the deepest known within the Swabian Alps at 144m (472 ft) and has a stream running through it that connects it to other caves within the area. ...

How to ensure real-time access to Antarctic tide data

The SATGN is maintained and operated by the National Oceanography Centre, which is the UK centre of excellence for sea level monitoring, coastal flood forecasting and the analysis of sea levels. It is the focus for marine water level research in the...

Water Quality Monitoring and Weather Data at Pampulha Lake-Brasil

 In 2010, OTT Hydromet's partner in Brasil,  Hexis began working with CETEC. This resulted in the installation of a buoy, equipped with an automatic profiling system, in early 2013. The project’s objective is the continuous monitoring of the lake’s...

Flood Warning Station at Kriebstein, Saxony - Germany

As flood-warning station and hydrometric base station with a catchment basin of 1754 km2 , reliable data monitoring is extremely important for the hydrological balance of Freiberg and for the whole area around the Mulde. The power plants, located up...

E.ON Power Plant Nuremberg

Water level, water flow and discharge are monitored at two inflows of the E.ON electricity power plan Franken I, using the OTT SLD, with horizontal Doppler-flow sensors. The purpose of this measurement is to optimize the operation of the plan which...

Bench Service Partnerships

Service contracts can reduce your instrument's lifetime repair costs by over 25%, decreasing your overall cost of ownership and increasing your return on investment. Plus, there are no hidden fees or additional repair expenses. This allows...