For more than 80 years, residents of Mississippi’s Yazoo Backwater have been banking on a pumping project to protect their ...

The REINS Act is superior because it reverses this dynamic by requiring congressional approval for all major regulations — an ...

A bill that seeks to address critical issues such as climate change adaptation, drought, desertification, flooding, coastal erosion, dam failure, building collapse, oil spills, among others has ...

The commendation came during a field inspection tour on Tuesday, May 6, 2025, as part of efforts to assess flood control measures ... MMDCEs must act swiftly. Sanitation must be prioritised ...

Flood protocols the Corps uses today were established under the 1928 Flood Control Act. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers tests opening the Bonnet Carré Spillway as the Mississippi River nears ...

The Bonnet Carre Spillway has been opened more than a dozen times since it was constructed nearly 100 years ago, but the protection it offers New Orleans' levee system comes at a cost: The rush of ...

This prompted Congress to pass the Flood Control Act of 1928, authorizing construction of dams, levees and other flood-fighting measures and placed flood-control management under the U.S. Army ...

However, the public reaction to Coolidge’s lack of empathy led to the 1928 Flood Control Act, which Coolidge signed. Striking the Sea Island area around Savannah, Georgia, on August 27 ...

Tehama County’s Board of Directors for the Flood Control and Water Conservation District ... s Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) authorizes fees such as the well registration ...