Missing realtime data

[giligone]

I would first like to thank you for your R package “tidyhydat”. It is great and I use it regularly. I had a couple questions

First, I’m trying to extract data for a site (08NM158). The data are clearly up to date via the Water Office website (see graph).

And I can see using tidyhydat that it has found the site and shows for “REAL_TIME” that it is TRUE

But if I try and query these data I get this error

When I do a query with hy_daily_flows I can see potentially the problem. This site was formerly active, discontinued in 1982, and then reactivated but the tidyhydat appears only to have the old data.

Is this likely to be the issue? Is there any way to work around this?

My second question is that this site also stores turbidity data. I know tidyhydat does not currently support this type of data but is there any potential that it could become supported in the future?

Thanks for your time
Kind regards

[boshek]

So I am definitely not an authoritative voice for WSC. Should be clear on that.

And really I don't have much of answer for you. The data from hy_ functions all good from hydat. That is validated WSC data. The data from the datamart (i.e realtime_*) is from this site: https://dd.weather.gc.ca/hydrometric/csv/BC/

The datamart only offers the last 30 days of records and then there is a gap between that and when the data appears in HYDAT. I am not certain why this data, however, is not in the datamart. Sorry I can't be more help!

[giligone]

Thanks for your reply. I'll try my luck inquiring directly to WSC to see if I can find anything. I'll post a follow-up if I learn anything. Thanks again for your help.

[boshek]

I should also mention that there is some suspended sediment data in HYDAT. They can be access via tidyhydat. Most of it has been discontinued but worth mentioning:

library(tidyhydat)
hy_sed_daily_suscon("08MF005")
#>   Queried from version of HYDAT released on 2022-04-18
#>    Observations:                      5,358
#>    Measurement flags:                 2,751
#>    Parameter(s):                      Suscon
#>    Date range:                        1965-05-01 to 1979-12-31 
#>    Station(s) returned:               1
#>    Stations requested but not returned: 
#>     All stations returned.
#> # A tibble: 5,358 × 5
#>    STATION_NUMBER Date       Parameter Value Symbol
#>    <chr>          <date>     <chr>     <dbl> <chr> 
#>  1 08MF005        1965-05-01 Suscon       NA <NA>  
#>  2 08MF005        1965-05-02 Suscon       NA <NA>  
#>  3 08MF005        1965-05-03 Suscon       NA <NA>  
#>  4 08MF005        1965-05-04 Suscon       NA <NA>  
#>  5 08MF005        1965-05-05 Suscon       NA <NA>  
#>  6 08MF005        1965-05-06 Suscon       NA <NA>  
#>  7 08MF005        1965-05-07 Suscon       NA <NA>  
#>  8 08MF005        1965-05-08 Suscon       NA <NA>  
#>  9 08MF005        1965-05-09 Suscon       NA <NA>  
#> 10 08MF005        1965-05-10 Suscon       NA <NA>  
#> # … with 5,348 more rows

[hydropatch]

Hi Sam and giligone
I contacted ECCC and they have now made that station available on the datamart so realtime_dd(station_number = "08NM158") now works!

[boshek]

Hey! That's great. Curious @patjlittle - which email did you contact them at?

[giligone]

Brilliant! Thanks @patjlittle. I tried contacting them too but had no success so I appreciate your efforts. I can also confirm that it is working for me too.