Powder Mills USGS Gaging Station

My partner and I took a walk at Powder Mill Park in upstate NY to look at the mushrooms and fish hatchery. While we were there, I came across the transmitter for a United States Geological Survey (USGS) stream gaging station—you can go to the link and see the data from this station.

I've been interested in cataloging the stations I see since I saw Sarah from Signals Everywhere's video on the transmitters for these stations. I previously found one at Ellison Park and got some pictures of both the transmitter and what I believe is the sensor. According to Sarah, the stations uplink the data in the UHF band (~401 MHz) to the GOES weather satellites, which relay the data back down for processing by the National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS). My photos from today are below:

I've long thought it would be cool to connect the data from these to some sort of musical result, but I haven't figured out a satisfying way to do that—a way to both make the data meaningfully present in the music and make interesting music, rather than something blandly demonstrative of the data.