Articles Tagged with ''Flooding''

Construction crews across Massachusetts are repairing busted water and sewage lines after a massive snowstorm dubbed the “bomb cyclone.” 

A massive snowstorm dubbed the “bomb cyclone” broke Boston’s record for its highest tide ever recorded by the National Weather Service, but fully assessing the storm's damage will take weeks in a region that was plunged into frigid temperatures the day after the Jan. 4 storm.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is embarking on a $4.53 million project to replace a 400-ft-long section of Mississippi River flood wall behind the French Market.

After Miami Beach’s Sunset Harbour neighborhood experienced extreme foot-deep “sunny-day flooding” because of a king tide, city engineer Bruce Mowry and public-works director Eric Carpenter realized the city’s injection-well drainage system didn’t work.

The coast of Louisiana is sinking, drowning and being blown away at a rate that exceeds any other coastline in the United States.

For years, the city of Miami Beach had approached the concept of sea-level rise much like that of other coastal communities: with a lot of “talk talk talk” but not much action, says Bruce Mowry, city engineer.