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Track water levels in Lake Conroe and Lake Houston #139

Closed fileunderjeff closed 5 years ago

fileunderjeff commented 6 years ago

This idea came from our friend Mike Morris at the Houston Chronicle:

An app that tracks Lake Conroe and Lake Houston water levels like the stock market.

A simple interface, graphically neat, that shows (1) whether the lakes are rising or falling and (2) CFS being released in real time.

Those would be complemented with a swipe screen or some other way of showing contextual data in both categories (like recent average lake levels and historical record levels and release rates going back months/years).

Data is handled by the USGS:

https://waterdata.usgs.gov/tx/nwis/uv/?site_no=08072000&PARAmeter_cd=00065,00060 https://waterdata.usgs.gov/tx/nwis/uv/?site_no=08067600&PARAmeter_cd=72020,00054