California’s two largest reservoirs are releasing water for flood-control safety, a sign of how much rain and snow has fallen this winter even though the drought isn’t over. The releases at ...

Some residents who are opposed to a large permanent reservoir offered a potential compromise by creating areas that could ...

Keeping room in reservoirs for flood control. Federal regulations require at least 500 cubic feet of water flow per second through the Truckee River at the Nevada/California state line.

Water managers are shifting from flood control to water storage at reservoirs across the California. Folsom Lake is at roughly 70 percent capacity, with about twice the amount of inflow as outflow.

Idaho water case - flood control in Boise reservoirs - may cause 2018 Legislature special session, Supreme Court ruling. Irrigators say water is being released downstream early in the season, and ...

The arduous task of cleaning up from catastrophic flooding is underway across the Northeast after storms stretched the region’s flood control systems nearly to the breaking point. As rising global ...

Rajasthan Chief Minister Bhajan Lal Sharma chaired a meeting to tackle the state's flood crisis. With 36 districts affected, ...

Mitigating and Optimising Excess Water in Kenya and Rwanda," constructed water reservoirs in Kenya to store excess runoff, which was then used for irrigation.In Rwanda, the focus was on rehabilitating ...

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The design of the flood control system is complex and has many moving parts, but if each cog in the wheel operates to its capabilities, major flooding can be prevented.

By 2015, the flood control district had issued a warning in a new report that concluded: "Addicks Reservoir does not have the capacity to accept additional runoff anticipated from land development ...

I managed flood control reservoirs in Iowa and locks and dams along the Mississippi and Illinois rivers for a decade, and I now research the operation of large systems of reservoirs for flood ...