Officials and contractors in British Columbia and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Washington state push to reopen, repair and add resilience to battered highways and flood defenses after a month of repeat storms.

Plans for a multiple lines of defense strategy to protect the Texas Gulf Coast from hurricanes and storm surge moves to Congress for approval with the release of a final feasibility report and final environmental impact statement from the Corps of Engineers and Texas General Land Office that proposes $28.87 billion in coastal protection projects.

The lack of 'buy-in' on a plan led to the Corps of Engineers to terminate its flood study.

Generating the best possible models of storm surge, flooding and coastal conditions has been a major goal of the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center.

Senate hearing shows wide support for revamping key Army Corps of Engineers metric.

Nominee Michael Connor also was commissioner for the Bureau of Reclamation in the Obama administration.