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Cumberland County installs five stream gauges to improve flood monitoring after hurricanes
Summary
Cumberland County emergency management presented a multi-agency project to install five stream gauges, funded by a Duke Energy Foundation grant and supported by the North Carolina Office of Recovery and Resiliency, to expand real-time flood monitoring and warnings in vulnerable communities.
Cumberland County emergency management on Monday described a new stream‑gauge network installed to expand flood monitoring after short warning times during hurricanes Matthew and Florence.
Interim Emergency Management Director Gary Crumplum told the Board of Commissioners the county received a $27,650 award from the Duke Energy Foundation’s accelerator grant program to install gauges at multiple points, and that supply‑chain cost increases during the COVID‑19 pandemic reduced the installed number from six to five. Crumplum said the gauges measure water stage and, in some cases, flow, and feed data into the publicly accessible state stream‑gage…
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