California-Data-Collaborative / cadc_reservoir_explorer

An agile approach to visualizing California's reservoir levels in real-time.
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Parser for Colorado River basin #22

Open dmarulli opened 6 years ago

dmarulli commented 6 years ago

Adding reservoirs from the Colorado River basin

Would be good to add reservoir volumes as well as elevation levels for:

Develop the data feed here: https://water.usbr.gov/query.php?sites=hdmlc

Example query: https://water.usbr.gov/api/web/app.php/api/series?sites=lakepowell,hdmlc&parameters=Day.Inst.ReservoirElevation.feet,Day.Inst.ReservoirStorage.af&start=1850-01-01&end=2018-04-09&format=csv

Hard code capacities from: https://www.nps.gov/lake/learn/nature/storage-capacity-of-lake-mead.htm