NORWICH – The Susquehanna River Basin Commission (SRBC) recently listed recommendations for improving flood monitoring and forecasting that may lead to Norwich getting a new and much more technologically-advanced river gauge.

“Based on the discussion I’ve had with the SRBC, I’m confident that we will be getting a river gauge,” said City of Norwich Emergency Management Officer A. Wesley Jones.

The SRBC’s recommendations, based on the June 2006 flooding, call for developing “crest-crest relationships for forecasts in New York at Norwich (Chenango River).” According to SRBC’s Director of Communications Susan Obleski, “the new gauge in Norwich would provide real-time data on the level of the streams, and the National Weather Service can make forecasts on that gauge.”