In the wake of July's deadly flooding in Central Texas, state leaders are turning to researchers in North Texas.

The Texas Water Development Board has tapped the University of Texas at Arlington's Water Engineering Research Center (WERC) to make rainfall data collection more accurate and improve flood prediction.

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The team will gather data from several places, including radars, rain gauges, and satellite.

“Our specialty here is, once we take in that information, how are we going to utilize, polish the information, turn it into a kind of accessible format, and also a usable format," said Nick Fang, a civil engineering professor and the director of WERC.

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