The City of Rochester has a system of reservoirs and dams in place to regulate water in the Med City. RPU Project Development Manager and Flood Control System Engineer Matt Crawford says it’s all ...

Some reservoirs are intentionally left at low levels or empty, Lund said, because they’re used for flood control. But those reservoirs fill during heavy rainfall to prevent flooding.

In May 1949, 11 inches of rain fell on Fort Worth in nine hours, turning the Trinity River into a 14-block-wide body of water ...

“California’s reservoirs play a critical role in safeguarding ... The report focused on flood control but also found that water supply management could benefit from the changes.

“No man has done more for flood control than William Hale Thompson ... the Mississippi was by impounding its tributaries in reservoirs; that reservoirs affected agriculture and waterpower ...

He added that since the plaintiffs had acquired their property after the Army Corps constructed the reservoirs as a flood control measure, the federal agency had a right to operate the dams ...

BEIJING, June 6 (Xinhua) -- China has allocated 580 million yuan (about 80.73 million U.S. dollars) to provincial-level regions to strengthen their flood control work, the Ministry of Finance said on ...