"Rivers are the natural conduit of American expansion." The Army Corps of Engineers built channels and levees for navigation throughout the late 1800s. When it began managing flood control ...

Engineers and scientists are moving constrictive levees ... of repeated flooding have accepted buyouts. On those newly available lands, Brauer’s district is restoring natural floodplains and ...

Many local officials believe that, instead of just building more levees, the state should give flood waters another place to go by creating natural floodplains out of conserved land. That’s what ...

But some small rural districts with limited budgets can maintain the levees to only a 10-year flood standard ... this extreme weather,” California Natural Resources Secretary Wade Crowfoot ...

Sponsor Message On today's show, what the story of Windell's levee can teach us about how the federal government calculates and manages the risk of natural disasters, and how those calculations ...

The Army Corps plans a potential $15M project to replace Sebewaing River levees with steel, addressing decades of erosion and ...

For years, experts had been warning Monterey and Santa Cruz County that the levee along the Pajaro River could fail. March 12, 2023 The dam collapse triggered a massive flood in Los Angeles and ...

JEFFERSON CITY — After years of grappling with the effects of flooding ... to a natural state. Under the new plan, Conservation officials plan to spend $27 million to remove damaged levees ...

Opening up floodplains, enacting building restrictions in flood-prone areas help mitigate the damage caused by a changing climate. Making room for the river: Communities look at nature-based solutions ...