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Items Tagged with 'Flooding'

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Innovyze Founder Paul Boulos Discusses Why Firms Should Create New Tech

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Jeff Yoders
March 9, 2021
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Innovator shares how industry can encourage the same intrapreneurship that allowed him to create tech company just sold to Autodesk for $1B

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Downtown Davenport, Iowa flooding
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STORM Law Creates Resilience Revolving Disaster Funds

Law signed by President Trump Gives FEMA Ability to Grant Money to States, Tribal Governments for Disaster Mitigation
Annemarie Mannion
January 7, 2021
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STORM Act becomes law, authorizing FEMA to grant money to states for resilience revolving loan funds but $200-million appropriation to fund it doesn't start until 2022.


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Damage Assessments Still to Come in Hurricane Laura's Wake

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Louise Poirier
August 27, 2020
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After fast growth from Category 2 to Category 4 in two days, storm made landfall near Cameron, La., early on Aug. 27, but earlier predicted "unsurvivable" storm surge was less than anticipated.


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Chennai

Threats of 'Day Zero' Water Scarcity Multiply

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Pam Radtke Russell
July 20, 2020
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Last summer, Chennai became the world’s first major city in which there was no water for residents to drink. But, as climate change makes flooding and drought more common, the city of 8 million is unlikely to be the last to run dry.


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Water runs over Edenville Dam
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Federal Regulator Cited Failed Michigan Dam Multiple Times

Owner Said Odds of Failure Were Five to 10 in 1 Million
Jeff yoders
Jeff Yoders
May 20, 2020
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10,000 Midland County, Mich., residents were forced to leave their homes when heavy rains May 19 and 20 swelled the Titabawassee River to a record high and caused the Edenville and Sanford dams to fail.


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Lower Wacker Drive Flooded in Chicago
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Chicago Sees Record Rainfall, Power Outages; No Room in Lake for Runoff

Lower Wacker Drive flooded, river water unable to be drained into Lake Michigan
Jeff yoders
Jeff Yoders
May 18, 2020
One Comment

Record rainfall for May has left Chicago's tunnel and reservoir filled to capacity, and operations to send the water into Lake Michigan didn't immediately work due to high water levels and flooding.


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Cedar Rapids Amphitheater
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U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Midwest Divisions Named ENR Midwest's Owner of the Year

Agency's Northwest, Mississippi Valley and Ohio and Great Lakes Region Tested by Heavy Rains, Flooding
Jeff yoders
Jeff Yoders
February 4, 2020

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is facing the challenges of a changing climates, the demands of river commerce in a changing economy and the needs of the other agencies it acts as a developer for simultaneously.


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Raised Bridge and Road Resolve Iowa City's Flooding Problem

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Mary B. Powers
December 23, 2019
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A $40-million project has produced $456 million in benefits.
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Mambalam Canal

Contest Brings Worldwide Brain Power to Improve Environmental Resilience in Asia

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Pam Hunter McFarland
December 11, 2019
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Contest brings worldwide brain power to resilience in Asia


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Virginia Beach water level

Virginia Beach Makes Plans to Keep Its Head Above Water

Jim Parsons
August 28, 2019
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Stormwater issues literally come with the territory in Virginia Beach, Va. Almost entirely surrounded by water and permeated with creeks and marshes, Virginia’s most populous city has long coped with flooding across its 310 sq miles, particularly during hurricanes and other major rain events.


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