Marin County deploys tidal gauges to monitor flooding

Justin Taplin steadied the tidal sensor as a county crew attached it to a projected sea level rise pole in Bothin Marsh. The spot along the Mill Valley-Sausalito multiuse path was one of four locations where the team installed radar sensors on Monday. Shortly before, Taplin, a Marin County sea-level planner, activated the solar-powered device. From his ladder, he opened a phone app and waited. It s checking in and working, he reported. One hundred percent signal strength. Amazing, said Nadia Seeteram, the county s chief climate officer. The installation is part of a county effort to install a network of real-time gauges to inform the public and emergency managers before king tides peak again during Thanksgiving week. When I came into this role, what really stood out to me is that there didn t seem to be a platform for communicating this information to the public, Seeteram said. We are trying to provide real-time, or as close to real-time, awareness of flooding conditions — o