Water Surface Elevations Derived from Submersible Pressure Transducers Deployed on the Arkansas River at Parkdale, Colorado, March 2018

The U.S. Geological Survey deployed eight submersible pressure transducers in the Arkansas River at Parkdale, Colorado on March 19, 2018. An additional transducer was left out of the water to correct for barometric pressure fluctuations. At the time of deployment and recovery, the coordinates of the top of the post to which the transducer was secured were surveyed with real-time kinematic Global Navigation Satellite System surveying equipment. Also at the time of deployment and recovery, the offset between the location on the transducer that records stage and the top of the post to which the transducer was secured was measured with an engineering ruler. The transducers collected a depth measurement every 1-min until the recovery of [...]