Clever engineering and regular maintenance keep a 100-year-old dam and levee system operating, protecting more than $10 billion in property annually. The Miami Conservancy District’s flood protection ...
New flood defences, costing about £10m, have been installed in Bewdley, Worcestershire. The defences stretch for 300m at Beales Corner, an area repeatedly hit by significant flooding over recent years ...
Louisville's flood protection system, built in response to the devastating 1937 flood, includes a 29-mile floodwall and levee system. The system is designed to withstand water levels equivalent to the ...
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - Water levels on the Cedar River are set to crest at 12.3 feet Sunday evening, that’s minor flood stage, but well below the record of 31 feet in 2008. Since the flood, the ...
Flood defence work costing £65.5m is set to begin later this year in Staffordshire. It will include drilling boreholes at 86 locations across Tamworth to discover what materials are in the ground and ...