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The city of Virginia Beach is adding measures to prevent another flooding event like the one they saw after Hurricane Matthew ...
To ensure that the flat is now flooded with sunlight only, Polysmiths implemented various flood-proofing strategies. For starters, that verdant garden is designed to provide drainage.
Editorial Standards ⓘ COVINGTON, Ky. — Covington officials said a practice run of installing a crucial flood gate was possibly the first test of the gate's condition since the 1950s.
With the new flood gates, a signal will trigger the crossing arm when the intersection has too much water. City officials said the flood gates will be installed as the money becomes available.
WELLSVILLE — For the first time since 2017, Wellsville needed to erect the flood gate for possible flood control. Wellsville Fire Department, Wellsville Volunteer Fire Department, Highlandtown ...
Each flood gate has been devised to achieve minimum level of 69.85m based on the likelihood of 1-in-100-year event, with an additional allowance of 50 per cent for influence of the climate change.” ...
Two other flood gates at East Street in Bound Brook and the Queens Bridge over the Raritan River would be closed at 8 a.m. and 9 a.m. Sept. 2, 2021, a county press release advised.