BY PARKS KUGLE
Flood warning system needs for City of San Antonio
“This is a signi cant investment of tens of millions of dollars that can go into providing real-time
Project
Unit cost
Units
Cost
predictive modeling to ensure that we protect human life in a catastrophic ooding incident.” GRANT MOODY, PRECINCT
New low water crossing gauge-installation
$20,000
20
$400,000
Web cams at each low water crossing
$200
121
$24,200
3 BEXAR COUNTY COMMISSIONER
Develop action level for gauges (predictive ood model programming)
$1,200
121
$145,200
in 2007 and an additional $384 million in local flood control projects since 2017. Investments include roughly 80 high-water alert life-saving technology warning systems that use sensors to detect rising water on roadways. In 2003, the county, San Antonio, SARA and 20 suburban cities formed an interlocal agency partnership known as Bexar Regional Watershed Management, which manages stormwater issues in the county and has implemented over $2 billion in flood mitigation projects since its creation.
Predictive model updates for new gauge data
$2,000
121
$242,000
Automatic closing gates at low water crossings
$80,000
98
$7,840,000
Solar street light installations
$10,000
242
$2,420,000
Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition hardware
$750,000
1
$750,000
Total
$11,821,400
SOURCE: BEXAR COUNTY COMMUNITY IMPACT
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