New USGS Streams Gauge Page for Pennsylvania

[DaveKile]

The list is very good.
Suggestion would be if a used could minimize the regions that one is not looking in. FWIW

If I understand your statement, the arrows to the left of each region were setup as toggles with hide and show.

 

[DaveKile]

I would like to wrap up any adds or deletes to the list before I move on. Providing explicit station names and station # are critical for me. Here is a full list.

I'm mostly interested in the bigger rivers. I can have a few stations for a larger river, but not all of them.

Adding
West Branch Susquehanna River at Bower, PA - USGS-01541000

Deleted
Girtys Run above Grant Avenue at Millvale, PA - USGS-03049819

 

[Kms]

Pennsylvania water conditions

Explore USGS monitoring locations within Pennsylvania that collect continuously sampled water data

waterdata.usgs.gov

This does work, but not nearly as well as before.

The ideal scenario would be:

1) As you hover over the dots on the map, the stream and location info should appear.

2) Then you click the dot to select the gauge and the chart with the flow rate (cfs) for the last 7 days is displayed.

IMHO, the default should be CFS, not gauge height. I think cfs is more intuitive, more meaningful than gauge height.

I’ve added the colored dots to my shared map. The only source I have for USGS data is metric (Canadian) - so no cfs, sorry - but at least the color levels come through. Flow vs height data are a function of what the gauge reports, but both are displayed if you tap a dot, along with change from previous day.

 

[falcon]

I used to reference the gage at pocono creek / wigwam. It was in cfs. It is now only gage height but they baseline the graph at 9ft. Pocono is a smaller stream and 9ft would be a catastrophic amount of water. I now reference the brodhead gage and figure a comparison flow. UGSS really made some of these gages difficult and almost useless. You did a good job Dave.

 

[DaveKile]

I used to reference the gage at pocono creek / wigwam. It was in cfs. It is now only gage height but they baseline the graph at 9ft. Pocono is a smaller stream and 9ft would be a catastrophic amount of water. I now reference the brodhead gage and figure a comparison flow. UGSS really made some of these gages difficult and almost useless. You did a good job Dave.

Thank you. Working on features and locations that will best serve the whole fly fishing community.

 

[CRB]

If I understand your statement, the arrows to the left of each region were setup as toggles with hide and show.

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Thank you Dave!!! Just like christmas! 🙂
Just saw that is how it works.

 

[ianpcook]

This is a great service @DaveKile! Love seeing the trend statement (rising/steady/falling), since that's usually the key info I'm looking for.

Totally as a source of amusement, someone mapped all the river flows as a visual tool here: https://norway-charts.netlify.app/river_flow_map_usa/

(NB: the map does not pinch-to-zoom. Took me an embarrassingly long time to find that Cmd-scroll [Mac] up/down zooms in/out.)

 

[DaveKile]

This is a great service @DaveKile! Love seeing the trend statement (rising/steady/falling), since that's usually the key info I'm looking for.

Totally as a source of amusement, someone mapped all the river flows as a visual tool here: https://norway-charts.netlify.app/river_flow_map_usa/

(NB: the map does not pinch-to-zoom. Took me an embarrassingly long time to find that Cmd-scroll [Mac] up/down zooms in/out.)

Thanks for the feedback and sharing of the other map. A strong visual representation of the USGS data. It’s good to see some alternative interpretations of the maps. The USGS left us for years with and still do with very limited user interfaces. They never have lacked a lot of imagination.

I’m hoping to get a version 1 rolled out this fall of a final product. After that consider improvements and add on down the road.

All ideas welcome

 

[DaveKile]

I have a new unreleased version of the streams gauge I have been putting together. I have it set up on a test page to preview. The station popups have not been implemented yet. Once I see that this test version is working I will be proceeding to adding and testing station popups from the map.

You are more than welcome to test drive and see if there are any issues. Thank you for your help.

Currently the new Beta version below added
A map with streamflow indicators matching USGS
User Interface enhancements
Fixed caching issues
Fixed reload issues for desktop and mobile
Fixed a refresh button issue
Plus many other know issues

Old page link removed

(Screenshot below)

(This link may be change or deleted)

 

[DaveKile]

New version complete Beta V2.9.2
This is the version with popup station gauges working for desktop and mobile devices. Once all the bugs get fixed, this will be a released version for the site.
Primary features in this version:

Desktop
Rollover for markers showing gauge name, station #,county and region
Selecting marker provides popup box with naming info, current conditions, CFS, 6 hr discharge graph, gauge ft, water temp (if available ), air temp, links to outside data

Mobile
No rollover functionality
Selecting marker provides popup box with naming info, current conditions, CFS, 6 hr discharge graph, gauge ft, water temp (if available ), air temp, links to outside data

Use the Refresh Conditions if there are map or table loading issues.
If you encounter any bugs or issues please let me know here in this thread. Thanks for your help.

Known issues
iPad loading popups not working - fixed
Some loading issues of the markers on the map - use Refresh Conditions

USGS Real-Time Water Conditions for Pennsylvania

Current streamflow, gage height, water temperature, air temperature, and 2-hour trends for selected Pennsylvania streams using data from the U.S. Geological Survey and National Weather Service.

www.paflyfish.com

 

[FinFurFeather]

This is awesome - nice work!

 

[FisherOfMen]

Dkile,

You made this? Its quite nice.
I missed the old map and used it fairly often back when it was working.

I appreciate the effort here

 

[Bamboozle]

Great job DAVE and forgive me if I missed something OBVIOUS but...

Stream gauge information to ME is only relevant if I know the particular stream so well that I know if it is at X feet and Y cfm to either hop in the car or stay home.

For that reason, I have a spreadsheet where I enter stream flow & height from the USGS for a particular stream over several trips to determine MY ideal levels. When I look at the live time readings of less familiar water, I'll compare them to my spreadsheet before making a embarking decision.

What would be great (if it isn't already possible on your page) was if there was a login or something to enable user editable field(s) for particular gauges. In those fields I could plug in MY ideal level info so cross-referencing was unnecessary except the first time you plugged in the data.

I would assume that a login/account would be necessary to enable something like this, but if that was optional except for user editable fields, it might not be a big deal.

Or am I wrong?

 

[troutbert]

It looks and works good. It's very useful.

This is very minor suggestion, and probably not everyone would agree with it, but I suggest making the circles for the gauges slightly smaller. That way as you navigate across the map, you'd have less inadvertent window pop-ups.

 

[DaveKile]

It looks and works good. It's very useful.

This is very minor suggestion, and probably not everyone would agree with it, but I suggest making the circles for the gauges slightly smaller. That way as you navigate across the map, you'd have less inadvertent window pop-ups.

I added your rollover suggestion earlier. Is it working like you thought?

 

[troutbert]

I added your rollover suggestion earlier. Is it working like you thought?

Yes, it works well, and is very useful. Thanks for adding that.

If I remember correctly, the old USGS map had that feature, but the new USGS map does not.

 

[DaveKile]

Great job DAVE and forgive me if I missed something OBVIOUS but...

Stream gauge information to ME is only relevant if I know the particular stream so well that I know if it is at X feet and Y cfm to either hop in the car or stay home.

For that reason, I have a spreadsheet where I enter stream flow & height from the USGS for a particular stream over several trips to determine MY ideal levels. When I look at the live time readings of less familiar water, I'll compare them to my spreadsheet before making a embarking decision.

What would be great (if it isn't already possible on your page) was if there was a login or something to enable user editable field(s) for particular gauges. In those fields I could plug in MY ideal level info so cross-referencing was unnecessary except the first time you plugged in the data.

I would assume that a login/account would be necessary to enable something like this, but if that was optional except for user editable fields, it might not be a big deal.

Or am I wrong?

That is a good request. At this time I'm not sure how to do something like that. Currently it works as in independent page polling the USGS, NWS and Google for data and displaying back here on the site. It's more complicated tying in personnel information and yes account tie in would be required. It maybe something that I can tackle down the road.

I actually have thought of this idea and wanted to visualize when a stream like Kettle is in a fishable streamflow range. But is very subjective to each angler.

 

[DaveKile]

Yes, it works well, and is very useful. Thanks for adding that.

If I remember correctly, the old USGS map had that feature, but the new USGS map does not.

I think you are correct. My goal here was to capture the best features of the old USGS Map, USGS Table roll them into one page and add other useful services like the NWS. This version achieved about 99% of what I imagined back in January after the USGS dropped all our pages. I think it has more features already than the old setup.

I am looking for more ideas like you and Bam have provided. I may not to be able to add them all or it maybe something later on.

Thanks