The regional environment ministry is in
the process of installing 21 new gauging stations in torrents in the Balearics. When these 21 are installed, there will be 41 in all - 32 of them in Majorca. The 41 torrents in question, it is said, represent the most dangerous. The dangers are all too obvious and all too fresh in the memory -
devastating and fatal floods.
The gauges are in the beds of torrents. They consist of small wells with measuring probes. The water enters these wells and solar panels generate the energy to transmit flow data in real time. Technicians can therefore have immediately available data in order to analyse torrent capacity and therefore also the potential for water to overflow.