Explore your watershed
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Creek Watch is an iPhone application that enables you to help monitor the health of your local watershed. Whenever you pass by a waterway, spend a few seconds using the Creek Watch application to snap a picture and report how much water and trash you see. We aggregate the data and share it with water control boards to help them track pollution and manage water resources. You can use the map on the left to explore the data that people have contributed, or see recent contributions as a table.
The Creek Watch App uses four pieces of data:
(1) amount of water- the creek is empty, contains some water, or is full.
(2) flow rate- the water is still, moving slowly, or moving fast.
(3) trash- the area is trash free, dirtied by some trash (a few items), or has a lot of trash (10 or more items).
(4) a picture of your creek.
This data helps water control boards track pollution, manage water resources, and plan environmental programs.
Creek Watch is a project developed at IBM Research - Almaden in collaboration with the Living Environments Lab and in consultation with the California State Water Control Board.
The iPhone application will be released soon on the iTunes store, so you can get started contributing data!
The Creek Watch App uses four pieces of data:
(1) amount of water- the creek is empty, contains some water, or is full.
(2) flow rate- the water is still, moving slowly, or moving fast.
(3) trash- the area is trash free, dirtied by some trash (a few items), or has a lot of trash (10 or more items).
(4) a picture of your creek.
This data helps water control boards track pollution, manage water resources, and plan environmental programs.
Creek Watch is a project developed at IBM Research - Almaden in collaboration with the Living Environments Lab and in consultation with the California State Water Control Board.
The iPhone application will be released soon on the iTunes store, so you can get started contributing data!
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