Who can fill sandbags faster: man or machine? That question drew several dozen emergency workers, public officials and members of the news media Monday morning to a King County reservoir in the ...

Recreators construct an ice fishing hut on Dec. 7 at the Chena River Lakes Flood Control Project in North Pole, Alaska. With a permit from the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, people can ...

BROWN COUNTY (WLUK) -- Brown County employees filled sand bags ahead of the flooding Wednesday. Workers used a sand-bagging machine the county bought in August. Rather than using volunteers, this ...

1 / 3 Show Caption + Hide Caption – Emergency Operations Manager George Minges and Maintenance Mechanic Bryan Whitler, both from the Louisville District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, operate a ...

Farmers accidentally created a flood-resistant ‘machine’ across Bangladesh Pumping water in the dry months makes the ground sponge-like for the wet season, a system called the Bengal Water ...

Amid hammering rainfall, viscous mud flows and multiple state emergency declarations, Los Angeles County’s Byzantine flood control system has thus far absorbed near-record precipitation — a ...

It only makes sense to use Mother Nature's flood defenses as one of the tools to combat destruction from intense rains in the middle of the country and storms and Army Corps of Engineers considers ...

According to the report released Wednesday, NYC Transit’s plans to deploy $350 million worth of flood control devices leading up to the next massive storm need more coordination and streamlining.

Negotiations over the Columbia River basin could affect the environment in Canada and electrical generation and flood control in the United States. Negotiations of a 60-year-old treaty between ...