Flood Control Articles

In the battle for tax dollars, aging infrastructure might have an unlikely ally in potholes and traffic congestion.Carl Weber, retired public works...

Heavy rainfall in 2008 inundated the Coralville, Iowa, area. Six inches of rain fell on already saturated ground over a 48-hour period...

As rain poured down on Clarksville, Tenn., and floodwaters rose in early May 2010, the city’s utility collections team members could do...

Heavy rains struck southern Alberta on June 19, 2013, compounded with a sudden release of heavy snowmelt from the Rocky Mountains. The...

The South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD) is the largest of five water management districts in Florida, overseeing water resources and providing...

Wildfires are becoming a bigger problem every year. As cities and townships expand into heavily forested areas, utilities need to consider the...

Seattle Public Utilities (SPU) and Brown and Caldwell received the Award for Excellence in Innovation from the Water Environment Research Foundation at...

After 22 months without a combined sewer overflow, the Milwaukee (Wis.) Metropolitan Sewerage District (MMSD) was forced to conduct two in the...

Oldcastle Precast and Oldcastle Architectural announce the U.S. launch of their new low impact development (LID) stormwater management system, PermeCapture, an all-inclusive...

Hurricane Sandy devastated the northeast coast in October 2012. Recovery efforts are still underway. Significant damage was caused by the flooding of...

New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Commissioner Carter Strickland announced that 15 watershed employees normally stationed in Orange, Delaware, Sullivan...

Stormwater utility managers plan their systems around the size of the biggest storm they would typically expect in a given time period,...

In July 1996, a millennial storm hit the Village of Montgomery, Ill., unleashing 17 inches of rain in 24 hours — half...

Waycross, a Georgia city of 15,000 people, is too small to come under MS4 stormwater permit coverage, yet it is one of...