Lazarus Archive · LZ-22022

Birchridge river gauge readings, 1980–1998

Tri-County Water Authority, 1980–1998. Research data for scientific instruments.

Description

Hourly river levels from 7 gauging stations on the rivers around Birchridge, recorded by automatic loggers.

Provenance

Sent to Lazarus by post, with a note asking whether anything could be saved. The drive’s circuit board had failed and was replaced with one from a matching drive. About 65 percent of the data could be read; the gaps are mapped.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
78a8ebd321cd493622dcdfc2041ff3aeb25d847f7915ce5d3e99616f3b0dd5e0
Last verified
Oct 18, 2026, by Vigil
Migrated to
CSV with a data dictionary, with the original files kept
Copies
Three, on two kinds of storage, in two cities
Original carriers
Kept in cold storage in Vancouver

Access

Free, in the Lazarus reading room in Vancouver and in partner reading rooms. Copies may be taken away under the work’s license.

Reading-room copies are migrated to CSV with a data dictionary, with the original files kept. The recovered files are kept exactly as they were found.

Cite as: Tri-County Water Authority, Birchridge river gauge readings, 1980–1998 (1980–1998). Lazarus Archive, LZ-22022.

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