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The Great Flood of 1913 caused floodwaters to reach 20 feet high in Dayton, devastating the city and many other communities.
Texas lawmakers’ inaction on flood prevention often hits rural and economically disadvantaged communities the hardest, ...
The number of dams in the United States at risk of overtopping is increasing, threatening their structural integrity and ...
In April 1956, Columbus Service Director Floyd C. Redick proposed building a dam in Alum Creek in Orange Township, Delaware ...
Waco is already seeing its wettest July since 1976, but the forecast for the rest of the month is considerably drier as ...
Members of the Chehalis River Basin Flood Authority visited the Thurston County Board of Commissioners to explain the proposed water retention system on the Chehalis River outside Pe Ell during a work ...
Considering the recent flood emergency in Kerr County, Texas, which reportedly had no alert sirens in use, the question came ...
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 ...
A system of dams and reservoirs was designed to hold in floodwaters. Crews monitor the water coming into the system and ...
The saga of the Klamath provokes a more fundamental, yet often ignored, set of questions: What is a river for? Irrigation?
I think our ancestors would be proud because this is what they’ve been fighting for,” said Tasia Linwood, a 15-year-old ...
In August 2007, southeastern Minnesota was hit with rainfall and flooding of biblical proportions. Rainfall in excess of 15 ...