Murenbeobachtungsstation am Gadriabach in Südtirol

In the recent years, an increased attention of research institutes and public agencies in charge of watershed managers in the monitoring of hazardous natural processes has been observed. Both improved technical capabilities, and to the need of a better knowledge of such processes, in view of better strategies for risk reduction, motivate this development of monitoring activities. In order to gain a better knowledge on debris flows and sediment fluxes in headwater catchments, the Agency for Cuìivil Protectionof the Province of Bolzano has implemented a debris-flow monitoring station in the Gadria Creek, a small stream of Vinschgau (South Tyrol). This paper describes the monitoring station and presents data on for debris flows recorded from 2011 to 2015.