Items Tagged with 'flood'

Agency publishes updated flood standard requiring project participants who rebuild after disaster to consider future flood risks. 

The article began, “As this is written, most ominous reports come from the Mississippi Valley.” This brief mention in the pages of ENR came as one of the greatest disasters in U.S. history was unfolding.

Corps says "a national approach is needed" regarding levee safety.

Kentucky has brought on Stantec for a $25 million contract to use machine learning and other advanced technologies to provide flood risk mapping, assessment and planning services.

New master plan, if implemented, could eventually produce annual cost savings of between $10.7 billion to $14.5 billion, state officials say.

A series of storms has caused flooding, mudslides and power outages across California. More storms are on the way.

The new plan will completely reorganize flood-control planning into 15 districts organized by the state's major river basins.

Massive flooding that paralyzed British Columbia in November caught the province unprepared in more ways than one, with under insurance emerging as a major issue.

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.

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers plan calls for a 12-ft elevation storm surge wall to ring the Charleston Peninsula.