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City planners say more than 60,000 people in Virginia Beach live in flood-prone homes, and about 35% of the city's evacuation routes are already vulnerable during heavy rain or tidal flooding.
Flooding used to be a rare event, but now it’s becoming part of daily life in parts of the country. With land sinking and sea ...
Consultant likened a potential fix to Flamingo Ditch flooding to flood mitigation used to keep New Orleans dry ...
The city is kicking off a $100 million Brooklyn coastal protection project a decade in the making with a $27 million contract it intends to award to a Long Island-based engineering and ...
This summer marks 20 years since Hurricane Katrina made landfall on the Gulf Coast, leaving more than 1,300 people dead and ...
It's also a coastal city. A $1.5 billion East Side Coastal Resiliency Project at Stuyvesant Cove Park is the largest single coastal flood resiliency undertaking in New York City, Aggarwala said.
Parts of New Orleans are sinking at alarming rates — including some of the very floodwalls built to protect it. A new ...
Protection for historic coastal properties ... But St. Augustine Mayor Nancy Sikes-Kline told preservationists in a public webinar last week city officials who closely examined flood maps think ...
The Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority met on Wednesday to discuss the status of various ongoing projects, one of which is elevating homes in flood-prone areas. The US Army Corps of ...
According to Gothamist, the barrier will then connect with the East Side Coastal Resiliency project, which is similarly designed, "to form a combined 3.22-mile flood protection system extending to ...