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Kerr County team outlines $5 million plan for unified Guadalupe River flood‑warning system
Summary
A development team presented detailed requirements for a unified, automated flood‑warning system for Kerr County—covering rain and stream gauges, modeling, dashboards, and a dual communication center—and commissioners approved keeping a request to the governor 'in reserve' while pursuing RFPs and state grant opportunities.
A development team presented a plan Dec. 8 for a countywide, automated flood‑warning system designed to turn National Weather Service forecasts and local rainfall data into location‑specific warnings intended to give residents at least 15 minutes to reach safety.
Tom Moses, who led the development team, described an architecture that uses a three‑stage approach: forecasts, a network of more than 100 rain gauges feeding hydrologic models tuned to Kerr County terrain, and stream gauges to confirm flood levels. Model outputs would drive dashboards for emergency managers and an automated…
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