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 ...

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.

Cedar Rapids officials at looking at the impacts of high inflation and construction costs on the permanent flood control. The system is estimated to cost $750 million, but that figure has likely ...

Rob Davis, Flood Control System Program Manager, said work like this is actually relatively routine. Tuesday, crews worked to add new, heavier-duty caster wheels that move the wall into place.

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 ...