Practical Engineering. How Do Flood Control Structures Work. Posted: December 12, 2024 | Last updated: March 6, 2025. Every year floods make their way through populated areas, costing lives and ...

Work is 30% complete on the Red River control structure, the largest of three gated control structures for the metro flood diversion project. The Red River structure is scheduled for completion in ...

The completed inlet structure is the first of three gated control structures that will regulate the flow of water into the metro flood project's 30-mile diversion channel. The diversion inlet ...

The contractor and the flood control authority for the massive Red River diversion project in North Dakota have resolved $400 ...

An ongoing project that aims to repair design flaws and damage to flood control structures built in the 1980s in Wailuku has released its proposed plans for public view. The U.S. Army Corps of ...

Our traditional flood-control structures are old and inadequate. A real estate bubble is putting flood-prone communities in even greater danger.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced Monday it was releasing enough water into nearby Eagle Lake to raise already swollen levels by 4 feet, aiming to prevent a flood-control structure from ...

After recent flooding tragedies in Texas, New Mexico and North Carolina, St. Johns River Water Management District officials ...

The upper Guadalupe River is one of those rivers. The source of the Guadalupe River is in western Kerr County, where the north and south forks converge near Hunt. With no mitigating dams or flood ...

In September 2010, the New Orleans District Corps of Engineers was trying to determine if a stage control structure built near Zachary, LA, in East Baton Rouge Parish was constructed according to ...

Florida had 30 more manatee deaths in 2020 than it had in 2019. And 11 manatees were crushed to death or drowned by flood-control structures, more than twice as many as in 2019.