Installation of HESCO barriers intended to protect hundreds of Mendenhall Valley homes from glacial outburst floods began Monday on Killewich Drive, with the first phase of the semipermanent levee ...
This alternative is increasingly being considered as an approach to mitigating flood risk. But allowing rivers room to move ...
Restraining rivers through stop banks and channels transfers and heightens flood risks downstream. Allowing them to roam free limits flooding and delivers other ecological benefits.
Five months on and a temporary flood barrier made of sandbags remains around ... is calling for a pocket park flood defences at Clyde Road similar to those on Matilda (below) and Nursery streets ...
As winter fades and spring arrives, shifting weather patterns bring increased risks of heavy rains, melting snow, flooding, ...
Such spring tides may occur a few times each year, sending seawater flowing out of drains and spilling over banks in five low ...