This gauge is located at the remains of the Historic Elbe Bridge in Torgau, Germany. Water levels of the Elbe River vary a lot depending on rain and snowfall in the mountains.
The team walking on the flood plains - dry in 2007, but often completely flooded.
When we visited the place in Summer 2007, it was completely dry and the river was about 150 feet wide and peaceful. But after heavy rain in the mountains, the place looks dramatically different and all the green meadows we walked on are then completely under water (like in this historical picture of the 2002 flood shown below).
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