As record flooding continues across the Midwest, the region’s mayors and the Army Corps of Engineers are looking for solutions to mitigate future floods.

Contractor will develop GMP for the largest-ever such removal in the U.S., now estimated at $400 million.

Parties agree to develop options to fund the package and meet again in late May.

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, was hit hard by flooding in 2008, but new greenspaces and protection helped mitigate recent events

The second of two major sediment diversion projects in Plaquemines Parish, La., is closer to construction following the naming of a contractor to build the $700-million structure that will use mud from the bottom of the Mississippi River to help rebuild the state’s disappearing wetlands.

The road to innovation can be a long and winding one, but it might be hard to rival the path followed by the Ocean Renewable Power Co., of Portland, Maine, and its RivGen submersible electric power generating system, which is designed for installation on riverbeds and is based upon the company’s tide-driven units for maritime locations.

Key appropriators slam proposed $2-billion, or 31%, reduction in civil-works program.

The California Dept. of Water Resources (DWR) began releasing water from Oroville Reservoir earlier this month for the first time since the two-year, $1.1-billion emergency spillway reconstruction project was completed late last year.