A task force of the American Society of Civil Engineers, formed to assess the nation's response to the ASCE's eight years of repeated, urgent calls to improve flood risk management as a national priority, delivered its report on Sept. 22 with the finding that there has been only limited progress.
But the ASCE committee delivered an analysis of why progress is lacking and, significantly, provided a set of recommendations for getting things moving. The group's report is titled "Flood Risk Management: Call for a National Strategy."