Muddy Creek

Just a 'for what it's worth' . . . Virtually every gauge relies upon having a LOCAL funding partner. This may be a city or county, a utility (power company), or any number of other entities. Virtually all river gauges exist for flood prediction/monitoring, for predicting/managing flows for power generation, and various other needs of these LOCAL entities!. Thus, it is not always Federal budget cuts which affect these gauges. Many of these LOCAL co-funding agencies are suffering major budget crises. As a result, opting to de-fund a river gauge is often one of the easier cuts they can make. So . . . when a gauge (useful for a whitewater river such as this) goes unfunded, don't automatically blame the Feds. Look for some local agency and intitiate a campaign to convince them to continue (or pick up) funiding for the gauge.