How Historic Stadium Keeps the Mississippi Floods Out
A few days after the spring floods in the Upper Midwest began in June this year, FloodList took a brief look at some of the flood defences in operation in…
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Flood Barriers – Sandbags and Alternatives
Parts of the upper Midwest, USA, have been fighting floods for over a week now. Communities in North and South Dakota, Iowa, Nebraska and especially Minnesota have all suffered. Storms…
Elevation of Buildings in Flood-Prone Locations
In previous articles on this site, the roles of Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRM’s) and Elevation Certificates as components of the US National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) were examined. One…
Zurich Research: “After a Flood Is Really Just Before the Next Flood”
Two recently published research papers reveal the need for a radical rethinking on flood resilience. The first report, a collaboration with the Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) and the…
Waller Creek Flood Tunnel, Austin, Texas, USA
Underground flood tunnels are expensive mitigation options that divert river flows around important communities, re-releasing the flow downstream. Costs of flood tunnels vary depending on size and materials used. Following…
High-Tech Flood Warning System in Rawalpindi, Pakistan
RAWALPINDI, 20 May 2014 (IRIN) – A dozen children toss a frisbee around in a park in Rawalpindi’s Gawalmandi neighbourhood, under the shadow of a 30-foot-high tower capped with two…
China Flood Expo 2014 in Beijing
China Flood Conference 2014 will bring together researchers, policy makers and practitioners from Thailand and across the world to share experience and progress made in flood management research, policies and…
Dutch Minister Presents Jakarta Flood Plan
Today (2 April 2014), Minister Schultz van Haegen, the Dutch Minister of Infrastructure and the Environment, will be presenting the draft Master Plan for the National Capital Integrated Coastal Development…
2013 Floods Highlight the Positive Effect of Defence Measures
Press Release from Muncih Re, April 2014 Natural catastrophe losses in 2013 were dominated by floods. Detailed analyses have shown that protective measures can drastically reduce losses. For example, the…
Bombs Break Yellow River Ice Jam, China
Ice jam floods are a fairly common incident in parts of northern USA and Canada. Many of the spring floods earlier this month in Montana were a result of ice…
£140 Million for UK Flood Defences Announced
In his budget speech yesterday the UK Chancellor, George Osborne, announced £140 million new funding for flood defences. It is as yet unclear as to whether this is in addition…
Great Calgary Flood Tunnel
As another part of our series on flood tunnels, below we look at the future Calgary flood tunnel project that was announced in November 2013 as a potential part of…
Flood Maps in the USA
Flood Maps in the USA are used by Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to identify flood risk and provide the basis for setting the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) flood…
£123 Million Flood Plans for Oxford
A new proposal to alleviate flooding in Oxford, UK, was discussed during a meeting on Saturday 1 March 2014. The meeting was attended by representatives of the emergency services, local…
Malta’s Flood Tunnel Project
As part of our series on flood tunnels around the world, our third installment looks at the tunnel on the Mediterranean island of Malta. Malta is the third-largest island in…
G-Cans Project, Tokyo – Japan’s $2.6 Billion Flood Tunnel
As part of our series of articles on flood tunnels, below we take a look at the Metropolitan Area Outer Underground Discharge Channel, also known as the G-cans project, in…
