[nws-changes] 20130103: due to lack of funds-NDBC Buoy 41012 no longer supported- Fwd: ADMIN NOTICE NOUS41 KWBC

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• Subject: [nws-changes] 20130103: due to lack of funds-NDBC Buoy 41012 no longer supported- Fwd: ADMIN NOTICE NOUS41 KWBC
• From: Linda Miller <lmiller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2013 08:55:16 -0700

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Service Change Notice 13-2
National Weather Service Headquarters Washington DC
1050 AM EST Thu Jan 3 2013

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From:     Mark A. Tew
          Chief, Marine and Coastal Services Branch

Subject:  Due to lack of funds, NDBC Buoy 41012, Offshore
          St. Augustine, Florida, is no longer supported
          effective immediately

discontinued sponsorship of National Data Buoy Center (NDBC) buoy
41012. This buoy is considered unfunded.  Buoy 41012 is located
about 40 nautical miles east northeast of St. Augustine, Florida,
at coordinates 30.042 North, 80.534 West. The approximate
location of the buoy is show in the link below.

http://batchgeo.com/map/c741f75df1fc1a26fce45ddba1e4ed7d

Annual cost to operate this buoy is about $60,000, plus U.S.
Coast Guard support to service it. At this time, the buoy is
fully operational and transmitting data. If problems with data
transmission develop, there is no funding to repair the buoy and
it will no longer transmit data. There is no way to determine how
long the data will be available.

Buoy 41012 was deployed in June 2002. The CSP is not an
operational program and typically does not provide long term
funding for projects. The CSP and NDBC have been working together
for the past few years to find an alternative funding source for
this buoy but have been unsuccessful.

For more information on this buoy and itscurrent data, see the
link below.

http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=41012

Please provide any comments to the following e-mail address with
the subject line: Unfunded Buoy 41012:

Marine.Weather@xxxxxxxx

For more information, contact:

Wayne Presnell
Meteorologist, Marine and Coastal Services Branch
Silver Spring, MD 20910
301-713-1677, ext. 103
wayne.presnell@xxxxxxxx

National Service Change Notices are online at:

http://www.weather.gov/os/notif.htm