Flood Control Articles

Superstorm Sandy brought flood levels to the New York region that had not been seen in generations. Causing an estimated $74.1 billion...

High-build epoxy coating a solution for lift stationProblem:A Florida utility needed to coat a concrete lift station/wet well. The structure measured 21...

Ellicott City, Maryland, suffered devastating floods in 2016 and 2018. The disasters left residents and officials wondering how technology could help predict...

Dallas, Texas' storm sewers, designed and built in the 1930s, are no match for the dense neighborhoods of a 21st-century city. Despite...

Science is clearly showing that the world is shifting toward a more unstable climate. Weather events like the flash floods in Sydney,...

Austin, Texas, is blessed — and sometimes cursed — by the water that runs through it, under it and, unfortunately,...

Acknowledging that it all flows downhill, engineers at the Keno Environmental Restoration Project in Southern Arizona recently decided to take what nature...

Some stormwater projects protect assets. Pima County, Arizona, used its stormwater to create assets. A couple of decades ago, the county, with help...

One neighborhood in Dubuque, Iowa, was once especially prone to flooding. Between 1999 and 2011, there were six presidential disaster declarations and...

The recent storms that have taken much of California out of a years-long drought have been welcome, no doubt. But climate experts...

From Portsmouth, New Hampshire, to Homer, Alaska, drinking water and wastewater utilities across the country are working with EPA to prepare for...

The water level in Lake Mead — the nation’s largest reservoir that serves about 20 million residents in Nevada, Arizona and California...

Caitlin Clavette was killed when a 200-pound manhole cover went airborne and struck her vehicle as the 35-year-old elementary school teacher was...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a survey last week that reveals $271 billion is needed to maintain and improve the nation’s wastewater...