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the partnership between the National Weather Service (NWS) and
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A Partnership Between the NWS and USGS |
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| For Arkansas streams, river forecasts from the National
Weather Service are based, to a great extent, on data from the US
Geological Survey (USGS) and the Army Corps of Engineers (COE)
stream-gauging stations. These agencies operate most of their
stream-gages on a cooperative basis with other Federal, state, and
local agencies that fund individual gauging stations for
agency-specific projected regulatory needs. Reductions in
stream-gauging program funds, due to budget reductions for these
agencies or for cooperating agencies, usually require that some
stations be discontinued. |
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For more information, see the fact sheets,
"Stream Gauging and Flood Forecasting, A Partnership of the USGS
and NWS" at:
http://water.usgs.gov/public/wid/FS_209-95/mason-weiger.html
and information from the USGS "Streamflow
Information for the Nation" at:
http://water.usgs.gov/public/pubs/FS/FS-006-97
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