Hurricane Equipment (Streamgage) Repair and Data Restoration
In FY 2025, USGS received disaster supplemental funds (Public Law 118-158) to repair hurricane damaged equipment.
Hurricane equipment repair: tasks and benefits 2025
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- Hurricanes Helene and Milton damaged or destroyed USGS streamgages and platforms in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee. Funding will be used to replenish equipment reserves that were depleted to return impacted gages to operational status.
- Flooding caused channel alterations or service degradation at some sites. Funding will be used to update metrics to determine impacts of flood waters on infrastructure recovery activities. Analysis of these data by Federal, state, and local agencies, particularly the State Departments of Transportation and Water Resources, and private engineers are the basis for the design of bridges, dams, and levees; risk assessments and vulnerability of irrigation, water- and wastewater treatment systems to floods; and enable the delineation of floodplains that inform land-use codes that broadly determine where communities live, work, shop, and play.