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Remote Data Logger Up and Running
Wolf Creek Community Alliance recently received a very generous gift from a Nevada City company, Automata, Inc. Automata builds agricultural monitoring and irrigation control systems, and has been operating in Nevada City for 35 years, recently moving into a new headquarters.
The equipment that Automata, Inc. donated to us includes water quality monitoring devices that have been placed in the creek to give us continuous readings of water temperature, pH, conductivity, and pressure (pressure can be converted to flow).
This data is now being recorded once every 24 hours, and has already become an important addition to the data our citizen monitors have been collecting in the Wolf Creek watershed for almost 6 years. The new data is sent via satellite and is accessed by logging in to a website. This is a very exciting and significant upgrade to our water quality monitoring program!
Another local company, Rexel Norcal, also made very generous donations for the installation. Rexel has been in business in Grass Valley for years as an electrical supply house, and they donated some heavy-duty flexible conduit and other vital parts to protect the cables attached to the monitoring equipment.
Many thanks and kudos to both Automata and Rexel! This very generous support inspires
us at WCCA, knowing that community members and businesses share our concern for
protecting and enhancing our precious watershed.
[Posted 7/21/2010]
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