Real-time Hydrologic Data Collection Systems for the Southeast

Proceedings of the 1989 Georgia Water Resources Conference, May 16-17, 1989, Athens, Georgia.One of the principle non-structural methodologies for mitigating flood damages is through an effective flood warning system. Throughout much of the country, extensive development in, adjacent to, and upstream of numerous flood plains has greatly increased the potential for property damage and loss of life. As property values and population pressures have increased, the use of many structural techniques for flood control have become limited by excessive costs. As a consequence there is now a growing interest in non-structura1 flood protection methods.Sponsored by U.S. Geological Survey, Georgia Department of Natural Resources, the University of Georgia, Georgia State University, and Georgia Institute of Technology.This book was published by the Institute of Natural Resources, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602 with partial funding provided by the U.S. Department of the Interior, Geological Survey, through the Georgia Water Research Institute as authorized by the Water Resources Research Act of 1984 (P.L. 98242). The views and statements advanced in this publication are solely those of the authors and do not represent official views or policies of The University of Georgia or the U.S. Geological Survey or the conference sponsors