Venice Anti-Flood Gates Could Wreck Lagoon Ecosystem. ... would consist of a complex network of 78 flap gates designed to separate the lagoon within which the city sits from the Adriatic Sea. ...

An anti-flood system that was supposed to start working in Venice in 2011 – and could have protected the iconic city from more than a billion dollars in water damage last year – is now getting ...

As it stands, there are six options, four of which would build storm gates and storm surge barriers. The most ambitious, would build a sea gate between Sandy Hook in New Jersey and Breezy Point in ...

A pedestrian pedals by a new gate installed in front of the underpass on Campbell Avenue near Clark Street in West Haven, Conn., Monday, September 23, 2024.

The Lower Colorado River Authority has opened flood gates at Buchanan Dam to prevent overflow, allowing water to flow into Inks Lake, while Lake Travis remains at its average level of 666 feet.

Pima County has spent the last year undoing the damage to flood-control projects along several major waterways from last year's floods. Anti-flood features took pounding in '06 Skip to main ...

The Smith Canal Gate Project is described as the first-of-its-kind floodgate west of the Mississippi that "will provide unprecedented levels of flood protection to an economically disadvantaged ...