Streamflow

Streamflow has been recorded from 1948 in most of the research catchments. From the 1990’s there was a break in the stream flow recordings in the catchments. SAEON took the initiative in February 2012 to clean out selected weirs (4,5,6,&7), with funding from the DEA Expanded publics works program working for water program, and started the process of for reinstating stream flow recording in these weirs. In May 2013, streamflow recording was restarted for the first time in 23 years, using OTT pressure loggers, in Catchments IV to VII Of the fifteen research catchments, the next catchments in which we plan to redeploy loggers are catchments III and IX.