RiversNearMe is a free, web-based app for phones that provides river level data sourced from WaterNSW for up to 50km in any direction from your NSW location by tapping on a map.
It was developed by Darren Yates, a postdoctoral research scientist in the Charles Sturt School of Computing, Mathematics and Engineering and in the Charles Sturt Gulbali Institute of Agriculture, Water and Environment.
“RiversNearMe is a quick and easy way for anyone to monitor recent river levels and river flow rates for up to 50km in any direction of a desired location within NSW,” Dr Yates said.
“Just point your phone web browser to riversnearme.csu.edu.au, click on a map location in NSW and RiversNearMe does the rest.”
Dr Yates said users could view trends over the past seven hours or seven days, as well as record peaks at any station site location, and even store their favourite location so they don’t have to click anything.
“Our data comes in near-real-time from the statewide telemetry stations of WaterNSW, who we thank for making the data available,” he said.
While primarily designed for farmers, the RiversNearMe app is available to anyone who has an interest in rivers — including campers, fishers, canoers and kayakers.
RiversNearMe is also part of a Food Agility CRC collaborative research project with Charles Sturt University, SunRice and AgriFutures Australia.
It follows the recently released Combined Location Online Weather Data (CLOWD) apps for computer and mobile phones to enable farmers and growers to analyse recent and historic weather for any location in Australia at the touch of a map.
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