In April 1956, Columbus Service Director Floyd C. Redick proposed building a dam in Alum Creek in Orange Township, Delaware ...

Control of the Ross Barnett Reservoir is at stake in a bill proposed this week by Sen. Lee Yancey, R-Brandon, that is raising questions over what it really aims to do -- and whether it could be a ...

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.

The 1978 flood was the tipping point, and — 13 years and $114 million later — a flood-control system was complete. The ...

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

Heavy rains and deadly flooding continue to wreak havoc across the Texas Hill Country, putting Canyon Lake and surrounding communities on high alert. The recent storm has caused significant rises in ...

A two-phase project by the Harris County Flood Control District will desilt and then repair more than 20 miles of channel — Mason Creek and Upper Buffalo Bayou — and their tributaries in the ...

To help prepare west Houston for the next big storm, the Harris County Flood Control District began construction March 19 on a $13.3 million flood control project on the Addicks Reservoir ...

That said, residents should remain vigilant. Continued heavy rain and saturated soils increase the risk of flooding in low-lying neighborhoods, poor drainage areas, creeks and low water crossings that ...

The "One Lake" plan promises to provide flood control for parts of Jackson, Flowood, Pearl and Richland along the Pearl River. However, ...

The city used its Flood Early Warning System to target hotspots and install signs warning of potential high water during ...

Houston’s existing flood control structures, the Addicks and Barker reservoirs, were built by the Army Corps of Engineers in the 1940s about 20 miles west of the downtown area.