Eric Olson - CEG CONTRIBUTING EDITOR - Thu November 07, 2024
Raising I-95 in North Carolina's Coastal Plain
One small town getting hit by a pair of destructive floods in three years by powerful hurricanes is almost assuredly going to lead to expensive engineering countermeasures. That certainly has been the case the last few years in Lumberton, N.C., where Hurricane Matthew in 2016 and Hurricane Florence in 2018 each caused 1,000-year-floods along the city's Lumber River and inundated sections of Interstate 95, the United States' primary freeway on the East Coast, leading to its partial closure in the Tarheel State's Coastal Plain....
Office of New York City Mayor Eric Adams - Tue November 05, 2024
VIDEO: First of Two Sections of NYC's $1.45B East Side Coastal Resiliency Project Is Complete
New York City has completed the first section of its East Side Coastal Resiliency (ESCR) project ahead of schedule and under budget, Mayor Eric Adams announced Oct. 17. It marks a major milestone in the effort to protect more than 110,000 Lower East Side residents, including 28,000 in public housing, from future storms and high tides and protect billions of dollars' worth of infrastructure and property in the area....
NYC Department of Design and Construction - Mon October 28, 2024
NYC Completes Phase II of Broad Channel Project
The NYC Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), the NYC Department of Transportation (NYC DOT) and the NYC Department of Design and Construction (DDC) announced the completion of a $51 million infrastructure project that raised streets, installed new storm sewers and reconstructed bulkheads in Broad Channel, Queens....
CEG - Wed August 14, 2024
Rising Tides, Worse Storms Lead Two Maine Towns to Solutions in Battling Climate Change
In Stonington, Maine, Town Manager Kathleen Billings has the Federal Emergency Management Agency's 2016 100-year flood map tacked on the wall above her desk. Eight years later, she is leading her town in efforts to fortify the community's infrastructure against ocean warming, worsening storms and rising tides....
CEG - Mon August 05, 2024
Vermont Floods Prompt Sen. Peter Welch to Ask Congress for Federal Aid
Vermont residents awakened Aug. 1 to a quieter weather forecast with no flood warnings following another round of destructive storms earlier in week. Even before floodwaters receded, though, the state's Democratic U.S....
Dick Rohland – CEG Correspondent - Wed July 31, 2024
Minnesota Flooding Affects Construction Crew
After several years of hot, dry weather, record breaking, monsoon-like rains rolled into the state of Minnesota this spring and stubbornly held a tight grip on the region going into early July. Residents and businesses in many smaller communities throughout the state have endured flooding in their streets and homes, in some cases over-powering local storm sewer systems....
CBS News Philadelphia & City of Atlantic City - Wed July 31, 2024
To Prevent Flooding, Atlantic City Begins $22M Project to Rebuild Baltic Ave. Canal
Persistent flooding has led Atlantic City, N.J., to begin construction on a $22 million effort to rebuild the Baltic Avenue Canal in order to protect the city. As part of the major infrastructure project, crews will install six pumps on the Atlantis Avenue Floodgate system to push out water from the underground tunnel into the waterways of the back bay during major flood events....
New York City Department of Environmental Protection - Wed July 17, 2024
New York City Department of Design and Construction Installs Porous Pavement Along Brooklyn Streets to Combat Flooding
Work is currently under way to install 7 mi. of porous pavement along Brooklyn-area roadways in New York City to help better manage stormwater and reduce flooding and sewer overflows. The city's Department of Design and Construction (DDC) is managing the $32.6 million contract, with construction anticipated to be finished in the fall of 2025....
The Associated Press - Wed July 17, 2024
Vermont's Latest Flooding Raises Concerns Over State's Hundreds of Aging Dams
The latest flooding in Vermont has added fresh urgency to concerns about the hundreds of dams in the state, a third of which are more than a century old. The July 10-11 deluge from the remnants of Hurricane Beryl was not as bad for the hundreds of dams across the state as compared to last year's floods, when five failed and nearly 60 overtopped....
Lori Tobias – CEG Correspondent - Tue July 16, 2024
Historic Flooding Hits Midwest
The community of Spencer, Iowa, thought it was ready for what the Little Sioux River threatened — about 17 to 18 ft. But then the river gauge became submerged and went offline, and the rising flood waters hit with little warning....
