Abstract

Continuous monitoring of the river flow is essential for assessing water availability. River flow velocity is crucial to simulate discharge hydrographs of water meter with infrared. The infrared current meter was tested using Ebonyi River at Obollo performed at three different verticals (A, B, & C) across the watercourse velocity readings were taken at the 0.6 of the depth below the surface. The total depth of water at locations A, B, and C are 0.35m, 0.4m and 0.54m respectively. The digital water current meter with infrared display obtained per second. To confirm the accuracy of the infrared current meter, it wa conventional water current meter. The measurements performed with the infrared current meter compared well with the measurement performed with measurements obtained using the two current meters was obtained.