This is a picture of the water level monitor that we installed at The Mill at Halford, just upstream of the Mill Race. My neighbour lives in the Mill, Paul Lucas, and he crafted the steel frame and made it big enough to capture water levels in the centre of the river to keep an eye on low flows too. The water level sensors tell us exactly how many times it floods a year, and also how big the floods are i.e. which areas of the meadow gets inundated. It is very interesting looking at the correlation between rainfall and river levels, we are building models and training them up against the data to understand more about the different weather patterns and how they influence the meadow. The next thing to throw in the mix will be the species counts and see how this has evolved in the differing climatic conditions. Its a tough place to grow anything on the floodplain, so recording what we are doing will hopefully make us and others more successful in the future.