The design of the flood control system is complex and has many moving parts, but if each cog in the wheel operates to its capabilities, major flooding can be prevented. January 12, 2017 • Jake ...

Design engineer Horace B. Lester explained it a year after the reservoir was completed in a 1964 article he wrote for the ... "These purposes were water supply, flood control and recreation." ...

To date, the water district has contributed about $81.5 million toward upstream and downstream projects, according to Erin Baker, engineering unit manager in the Watershed Design and Construction ...

The critical document that determines how much water should be left in Lake Oroville for flood control during the rainy season hasn’t been updated since 1970, and it uses climatological data and ...

“As design requirements have evolved and changed, flood control channels of today are required to effectively handle a greater amount of water,” James Treadaway, OC Public Works director, said.

Flood walls are visible in the bottom left, while the site of construction on flood control measures around the 12th Avenue Bridge and a retention basin in Riverside Park are also visible.

Flood control goes green: How ... "The whole design of the retention ponds is to slow down the ... Voters approve a nearly 60% hike in the Harris Co. flood control tax rate Stemming flood water ...

The back-to-back 100-year floods that swept through the North Country after ravaging Vermont might raise your concern about how New Hampshire’s aging flood-control dams are coping as extreme ...

But since 2016, Meriden has had far fewer water worries thanks to an innovative flood control concept called Meriden Green.City planners, landscape architects and others who do climate resilience ...

THE Seberang Prai Municipal Council (MPSP) emerged champions of the state-level Innovative and Creative (KIK) Group Convention for its creativity in inventing the flood control water level warning ...

The district paid the nearly $1.6 million cost to design, build and maintain the flood control project, which includes new stormwater culverts that will replace older ones that were deteriorating.