Items Tagged with 'flood damage'

Trying to protect the Cheboygan Dam and Locks, workers have placed large sandbags and 11 pumps, including two 24-in pumps to maneuver water around the structure. 

Hawaii had two 100-year storms in three weeks. Now engineers are reckoning with infrastructure built for a climate that no longer exists.

An emerging ecosystem of data and climate risk intelligence firms are using AI tools and other technologies to bridge impact knowledge gaps that federal agencies have been unable to fill.

Public works departments and the design and construction firms that work for them already see fallout from the suspension of FEMA’s Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities program.

Following Vermont’s record flash flooding last July 10-11 that killed two people and caused about $682 million in infrastructure damage, Benjamin Heath, civil construction manager at Engineers Construction Inc., received an emergency call from Burlington city officials that a 24-in.-dia sanitary sewer pipe had breached.

Torrential rain brought by Storm Daniel and poor maintenance of two aging, clay-core embankment dams near Derna, a coastal city, are key factors, experts say.

Floodwater diverted from Beijing has caused major damage in the Hai River basin, but no official damage cost or detail has yet been released as China’s government said it has allocated $124 million for immediate post-disaster relief and reconstruction.

In late August, a series of storms barreled across Southern California dropping torrents of rain on the high desert. A few inches of rain fell in the course of an hour, collected on barren slopes and rushed down previously parched arroyos.

Flood-devastated eastern Kentucky has started assessing damage to buildings and infrastructure following heavy rains last week.