Project Overview

Full Title
Charlotte/Mecklenburg Rainfall Network

Location
 Mecklenburg and surrounding counties

Cooperating Agencies
Charlotte/Mecklenburg County Land Use & Environmental Services Agency (LUESA)

Project Chief
Boo Robinson
jbrobins@usgs.gov

Period of Project
1992-present

Team Members
Wendi Young
Jym Chapman
David Stillwell

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Charlotte/Mecklenburg Rainfall Network

Introduction

Standard Pipe Mounted Raingage

The first raingage of the current network was installed in 1989. By 1992, three gages were recording rainfall in Mecklenburg County. At that time, an effort was started to provide good areal coverage of the county, and since 2002, the network has consisted of 70 raingages. Landline telemetry was used in early gages for data retrieval, but all sites are now equipped with ultrahigh frequency (UHF) radios. All sites currently use tipping-bucket sensors to measure precipitation.