Officials: Bureaucracy meant no warning system in park death

摘要

Tennessee officials say bureaucratic issues were behind the lack of a warning system at Cummins Falls StatePark, where fast-moving water killed a 2-year-old earlier this month (Greenwire, June 13).Parks and Conservation Deputy Commissioner Jim Bryson told lawmakers yesterday that after 2017 flooding, awarning system was identified, funded and requested by state parks and Tennessee Tech University, which wasfamiliar with the equipment.