Standing Project Instructions for Coastal and Great Lakes Water Level Stations. (Updated August 2011).

摘要

These Standing Project Instructions provide the recurring requirements for installation, operation, maintenance, and removal of water level stations in support of the NWLON, PORTSR, Coastal Oceanographic Applications and Services of Tides and Lakes (COASTAL) Program, hydrographic and photogrammetric survey operations, NOS VDatum and reimbursable special projects. These stations provide critical data to support the following activities: Ensure safe navigation; Determine flow rates to support International treaties; Determine tidal datums for the National Nautical Charting Program and the National Shoreline Mapping Program; Determine the baseline from which marine boundaries are delineated; National Weather Service tsunami and storm surge warning programs; Coastal resource restoration and management; and Long term sea level trend analyses. The objective of these Standing Project Instructions is to ensure that all the deployed systems and sensors are maintained in an effective and consistent manner for collecting continuous, reliable, and defect-free data.