Virginia Beach Confronts Inescapable Costs of Rising Seas November 1, 2021 By Ben Finley VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) — Voters in the sprawling coastal city of Virginia Beach will decide whether to approve one...
New Plan For Lake Okeechobee Releases Still Raising Concerns November 1, 2021 By Chad Gillis and Amy Bennett Williams FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) — Dozens of scientists, environmental groups, elected officials and agency heads met online Oct. 26 to...
Advisory Group Urges Better Flood Protection in Missouri January 3, 2020 JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Missouri’s levees need to be strengthened and repaired, especially in rural areas hit hard by prolonged...
North Dakota Town’s Levee Project Won’t Help Protect Some Homes December 12, 2017 A $4 million flood protection project in Bismarck, North Dakota, set for next year will affect nearly two dozen properties...
California Flood Protection Means More Room for Rivers August 28, 2017 By ELLEN KNICKMEYER After more than a century of building levees higher to hold back its rivers, California took another step Friday toward...
New Jersey Shore Homeowners Drop Suit Fighting Sand Dunes April 18, 2017 By WAYNE PARRY Some of the most resolute holdouts against a plan to build protective sand dunes in a part of the New...
Sinking New Orleans Partly Due to Groundwater Extraction May 24, 2016 Geologists have long known that New Orleans is slowly sinking – but now, scientists using radar technology say groundwater sucked...
New Jersey Lawmakers Question $15M Federal Flood Protection Funding February 17, 2016 New Jersey lawmakers on Thursday were left scratching their heads wondering why the state got only $15 million in federal...
Work Begins on Louisiana Levee Project November 26, 2014 Terrebonne Parish flood protection planners are taking the first steps toward building the western footprint of the Morganza-to-the-Gulf levee system...
Louisiana Floodwall Project to Begin Next Year November 14, 2014 A project to protect 375 homes and 15 businesses in Larose, La., including North American Shipyard, from flooding and storm...