Build an area for your watershed

Commercial

An area is your organisation's own group of gauges: a watershed, a town, a set of sites. Everyone in the organisation sees it, and it is where thresholds, exports and reports live.

Open Areas from the menu, type a name such as “Grand River watershed” and press Create your first area (later, + New area).
In the area, press Edit, then + Add gauge. Search or click gauges on the map; for each, tick the signals you want (flow, level, natural or total inflow, temperature). Press Add … signals to area.
Press Reorder to put gauges in upstream-to-downstream order. That order is used on every tab and in reports.
Press Done. Rename or delete the area from the ··· menu.

The Add gauges dialog: a search box, a map of gauges and the selected gauge with flow and level ticked — + Add gauge: search or click the map, then tick the signals to add.

The area tabs

Area tabs
Tab	What it is for
Live Map	The area's gauges on a map, coloured by flow status. Refreshes every 30 minutes.
Tiles	One tile per gauge: the latest readings and where they sit against your thresholds.
Graphs	A hydrograph per gauge, with a synced year overlay and the median or P10–P90 band.
Table	The basin weather forecast for each gauge, with forecast flow and level rows.
Conditions	Rain over the last and next 24, 48 and 72 hours, snowpack and wetness, one row per gauge.
Report	Your flood reports for this area (chapters 12 and 13).
Thresholds	Your organisation's lines for each gauge (chapter 9).
Export	CSV or PDF downloads of observed data or the latest forecast (chapter 10).

An area's Graphs tab: the year overlay and median overlay controls above a hydrograph card for each gauge — Graphs, with Hydrograph only ticked.

An area's Tiles tab: one tile per gauge with flow, level, status and forecast peak — Tiles: each gauge's latest reading, status and forecast peak.

An area's Conditions tab: rain over the last and next 24 to 72 hours, snowpack and wetness for each gauge — Conditions: rain, snow and wetness per gauge.

The tab is part of the address, so you can bookmark or share a link straight to an area's Graphs or Report tab with a colleague. The first time you open a forecast tab, press Accept and show forecasts to accept the Terms and forecast disclaimer.

An area with issued messages can't be deleted, only archived. An archived area is read-only; an admin can restore it from Show archived.