Nearly 6.9 million homes along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts are at potential risk of damage from hurricane storm surge inundation with a total reconstruction cost value (RCV) of more than $1.5 trillion (Table 1), according to the 2017 Storm …
Lawmakers and backers of coastal barrier systems are meeting in Galveston, Texas, to talk about the feasibility of building one to protect the Galveston area from hurricane storm surges. Texas Rep. Joe Deshotel, who chairs the House Land and Resources …
A new $4 million study will look at two ideas that have been proposed as ways to protect the Houston area from hurricane storm surges that could cause billions of dollars in damage and wreak havoc on the largest petrochemical …