Telemetry sensors — Rainfall and Stream heights

This dataset is available on Brisbane City Council’s open data website – data.brisbane.qld.gov.au. The site provides additional features for viewing and interacting with the data and for downloading the data in various formats.

Rainfall and Stream Height gauges owned by Brisbane City Council. This is raw, unprocessed data.

Council installs and maintains telemetry gauges at various locations across Brisbane as part of its hydrometric network. These gauges form part of the Bureau of Meteorology Flood Warning Network. This Brisbane City Council gauge information (raw data) is passed onto the Bureau of Meteorology which they display on their public website via various interfaces.

The hydrometric gauges:

• collect real-time information on water levels and rainfall
• provide information to trigger flood alerts and warnings
• provide information to trigger flooded road signage/flashing lights
• provide historic flood information for use in hydrology and hydraulic modelling.

Automatically collected telemetry data for rainfall and stream height gauges owned by Brisbane City Council.

The dataset includes raw gauge readings in 5-minute increments covering a 72-hour rolling period. The data is updated every 10 minutes. Dataset includes gauge readings, descriptions and location details.

The Data and resources section of this dataset contains further information for this dataset.