SEQUESTER: Feds to shut flood gauges used for 'crucial' disaster warnings

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Published on Thursday, 25 April 2013 18:46

Darren Weeks
Coalition to Govern America
April 25, 2015

The chief scientist for water at the U.S. Geological Survey says that at least 120 stream gauges needed to detect early flooding are being shut down due to automatic budget cuts related to the federal sequestration, the Associated Press reports. Jerad Bales told the AP's Seth Borenstein that some of the guages are in nine states which are threatened with sudden Spring flooding.

 

The Obama administration has been using budget cuts as a political tool, cutting public access to parks, monuments, and memorials while expensive government operations such as runaway military spending for wars continue unabated.