Pilot Channel: City of Edinburg

Research Applied Technology Education Services, Inc.

  • Objectives:
    • Characterize local flows in a local ditch at the City of Edinburg by installing an RTHS Station.
    • Four Monitoring Campaigns:
    • Water Quality
    • Flow Measurements
  • Goal:
    • Increase awareness of Nonpoint pollution
    • Potential application of RTHS and REON Systems shared by Stakeholders

July 2022-September 2022

Quarter 1 : Site Selection, Site Recon, Draft QAPP

October 2022-December 2022

Quarter 2: Final QAPP Approved, RTHS Station Design

January 2023-March 2023

Quarter 3: RTHS Deployment, Survey Station, Two Workshops

April 2023-June 2023

Quarter 4: Conference Presentation and Sampling Campaign

RTHS Location: EPA #1

RTHS Design

July 2022-September 2022

Quarter 1 : Site Selection, Site Recon, Draft QAPP

October 2022-December 2022

Quarter 2: Final QAPP Approved, RTHS Station Design

January 2023-March 2023

Quarter 3: RTHS Deployment, Survey Station, Two Workshops

April 2023-June 2023

Quarter 4: Conference Presentation and Sampling Campaign

Pilot Channel: City of Edinburg

NAD Bank/EPA -Border 2025

  • Objectives:
    • Characterize local flows in a local ditch at the City of Edinburg by installing an RTHS Station.
    • Four Monitoring Campaigns:
    • Water Quality
    • Flow Measurements
  • Goal:
    • Increase awareness of Nonpoint pollution
    • Potential application of RTHS and REON Systems shared by Stakeholders

Project Timeline:

RTHS Deployment

Website for RTHS Data: http://rths.us/edinburg.cgi

Next Activities: GPS Surveying

NOAA's Online Positioning User Service (OPUS) provides free access to high-accuracy  National Spatial Reference System  (NSRS) coordinates.

Continuous GPS Data was collected

Christopher Fuller, Ph.D., Chief of Operations

Mobile: 518-570-4078

Linda Navarro, Watershed Engineer

Cell: (956) 560-3891