Pender County Emergency Management is enhancing the ability to monitor flooding across the county with five additional new flood gauges. These five new gauges, purchased by Pender County Emergency Management and one by NCDOT help keep the public informed.  

“We will assist in real time monitoring of the rivers, streams and sound levels year-round from anywhere,” said Tommy Batson, Pender County Emergency Management Director. “Pender County has eleven (11) sites in the county after the new gauges came online this week.” 

The first gauge was put on NC Hwy 53 at the N.E. Cape Fear River Bridge before Hurricane Floyd in 1999.  This was the first historic river flooding in Pender County with river gauge data. The project of gauges has grown with Pender County Emergency Management, NCDOT and other partners assisting in the coverage of water levels across the county. 

Pender County Emergency Management and the public are now able to see when and where the flooding is occurring and when the water will crest in the different areas of the county. We can see the first flooding on the north end of the county on Willard Railroad Street to the flooding progression of the rising and fall of the NE Cape Fear River & Black River with monitoring these gauges. 

Pender County Emergency Management will post updates on their Facebook page at facebook.com/penderem, Pender County Emergency Management App and on the website Emergency Management | Pender County, NC. If you need assistance, call the EM office at 910- 259-1210.