Safely secured despite "flooding all around us," Houston-based ENR editor Louise Poirier provided a quick update while she was still able to get online.
After Miami Beach’s Sunset Harbour neighborhood experienced extreme foot-deep “sunny-day flooding” because of a king tide, city engineer Bruce Mowry and public-works director Eric Carpenter realized the city’s injection-well drainage system didn’t work.
For years, the city of Miami Beach had approached the concept of sea-level rise much like that of other coastal communities: with a lot of “talk talk talk” but not much action, says Bruce Mowry, city engineer.
A series of demonstration projects, which will complete at the end of 2016, will set the stage for a project to restore water quality in more than 300 canals in the Florida Keys, with a conceptual cost estimate of between $300 million and $600 million.
Faced with warnings of an imminent, catastrophic collapse of the earthfill structure causing widespread devastation, the Iraqi Ministry of Water Resources on March 2 signed up Italy’s Trevi Group to stem leaks under the dam and repair a bottom outlet floodgate.
South Carolina is taking steps to improve the safety of its regulated dams following the failure of more than 30 structures during October’s massive floods.
