Texas officials scrapped ‘Flash Flood Alley’ warning system before 27 killed at Camp Mystic -- because it was too expensive
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Officials in Kerr County, Texas — where 27 campers and counselors at a Christian summer camp lost their lives in devastating flooding — had deliberated on implementing a flood warning system along the banks of the Guadalupe River, referred to as “Flash Flood Alley,” but dismissed it as too costly.

Kerr County, which has a population of around 50,000 people, had explored the possibility of installing sirens and river gauges along with other modern communication tools along the waterway in 2017, but ultimately decided against it, as reported by the New York Times.

“We can do all the water-level monitoring we want, but if we don’t get that information to the public in a timely way, then this whole thing is not worth it,” Kerr County commissioner Tom Moser remarked at the time.

But the county, which has an annual budget of around $67 million, lost out on a bid to secure a $1 million grant to fund the project in 2017, county commission meeting minutes show.

Instead, local officials relied on a word-of-mouth system to pass messages about raging floodwaters downriver from the camps upstream.

In a recent interview, Rob Kelly, the Kerr County judge and its most senior elected official, said that residents were hesitant about the high cost of a warning system.

“Taxpayers won’t pay for it,” he said, according to The Times.

Meanwhile, County commissioners discussed using a flood warning system being developed by a regional agency as recently as May, budget meeting minutes show.

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