After the Memorial Day flood of 1981, the City of Austin needed a better way to deal with a forecast of heavy rain and the ...

Mayor Craig Greenberg announced on Thursday that an artist has been selected to paint the flood wall's first mural. Laurie ...

“We have not only diversion tunnels, but flood gates, flood walls, levees, and a pump station in downtown Harlan that pumped 90 million gallons of water out of the city in 36 hours. While ...

"At the time of the incident, my wife and child were inside the house and tidying up, afraid of the flood, and suddenly the wall collapsed, like a flash flood," Widodo said at the location. Head of ...

As people in Welch and elsewhere in McDowell County cope with the damage from last month’s record flood, they surely must ask if anything can be done to prevent another flood if a similar storm ...

Nearly three weeks after floodwaters engulfed southern West Virginia, Welch, in McDowell County, remains caked in mud. Towns across the coalfields are still digging out, one wheelbarrow of debris ...

Your device does not support the audio. ALTON – A public meeting to discuss a potential permanent flood wall in downtown Alton will be held in the Alton City Council chambers at City Hall at 6 p.m.

After the tide receded, flood water remained behind the wall with part of Coronation Gardens still flooded on April 10. Though flooding on the road had cleared, it raised questions about the ...

It has created a physical wall of corn stalks that has blocked roadways in the area. At the last measure, Butler County Emergency Management calculated around 300 yards of corn debris now covers ...

NORFOLK, Va. — A major hurricane hasn't hit Hampton Roads in more than 150 years. But if a Category 3 storm were to make landfall, it could cost the region $15.6 billion in damages and wipe out ...

The Brooklyn Bridge-Montgomery Coastal Resiliency (BMCR) project promises to use a combination of flood walls and deployable flip-up barriers to protect Manhattan’s Two Bridges neighborhood from ...

Superstorm Sandy's devastation still top of mind for many Several feet away from the East River, the deployable flip‑up barriers and flood walls are part of measures aimed at protecting the city ...