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The Upper Guadalupe River Authority had a $3 million reserve, but cut taxes rather than replacing an outdated flood alert ...
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The Texas Tribune on MSNDid fiscal conservatism block plans for a new flood warning system in Kerr County?In the last nine years, federal funding for a system has been denied to the county as it contends with a tax base hostile to government overspending.
They cited a Houston Chronicle investigation that found UGRA declined to fund the improvements despite having millions of ...
An administrator for the Upper Guadalupe River Authority testified that they had twice applied for funds for an alert system ...
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Social media posts claim Kerr County, an area hit hard by devastating flash floods, rejected the money from the Biden ...
Officials balked at the cost for installing a siren warning system and the potential for sirens to blare in the middle of the ...
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Kerr County first tried to secure $1 million for a flood warning system in 2017, but could not. Could such a system have ...
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The Texas Tribune on MSNWeather warnings gave officials a 3 hour, 21 minute window to save lives in Kerr County. What happened then remains unclear.Federal forecasters issued their first flood warning at 1:14 a.m. on July 4. Local officials haven’t shed light on when they ...
Years before the flooding took more than 90 lives in Kerr County, Texas, local officials knew residents faced threats from rapidly rising water. They started planning a flood warning system, one that ...
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A Kerrville-area river authority executed a contract for a flood warning system that would have been used to help with emergency response, local officials said.
For years, Kerr County officials debated how to fund a flood warning system. Under Trump administration changes, disaster funding opportunities are getting more limited for communities.
In 2016, Kerr County officials noticed that counties nearby were putting in flood warning systems, designed to save lives. Thirteen people had died in extreme flooding in Wimberley County in 2015 ...
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