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NYC Aims to Thwart Flooding in Queens

A collection of neighborhoods in southeastern Queens, N.Y., has long been known as one of the largest sections of middle class African American homes in the country. The residents there live with significant neighbors including Idlewild Park, a 160-acre public park and saltwater marsh, Brookfield Park, consisting of approximately 100 acres of greenspace, and the sprawling John F....


Long-Awaited Flood Mitigation Work Begins at Wilton, Conn.'s High School Sports Complex

A construction project aimed at mitigating problems with flooding at a Connecticut high school's sports complex began Feb. 3, the Norwalk Hour reported. Wilton's Public Works Director Frank Smeriglio brought forth the initial plans for the project in April 2022 after Hurricane Ida damaged Wilton High School's turf football field and new track the year before, a project that had cost the town $1 million to complete....


VIDEO: Metro Flood Diversion Authority Releases 2024-End Updates

Sixty-eight individual components of the $3.2 billion Fargo-Moorhead Area Diversion were worked on in 2024. That's just one highlight of the year that saw more visible construction progress than ever before on major flood protection infrastructure for the Fargo, N.D., and Moorhead, Minn., metro area....


NJ Transit Begins Rail Yard Project in Middlesex County to Protect Trains From Floodwaters

NJ Transit broke ground Dec. 12 on a new railroad yard on the New Brunswick and North Brunswick border in Middlesex County to provide a safe haven for railroad cars during possible natural disasters. The expansion of the County Yard and the Delco Lead Storage and Inspection Facility Project on the Northeast Corridor Line, part of the NJ Transit Resilience Program, will provide additional storage of rail cars in a centrally located area of the state, noted MyCentralJersey.com....


Raising I-95 in North Carolina's Coastal Plain

One small town getting hit by a pair of destructive floods in three years by powerful hurricanes is almost assuredly going to lead to expensive engineering countermeasures. That certainly has been the case the last few years in Lumberton, N.C., where Hurricane Matthew in 2016 and Hurricane Florence in 2018 each caused 1,000-year-floods along the city's Lumber River and inundated sections of Interstate 95, the United States' primary freeway on the East Coast, leading to its partial closure in the Tarheel State's Coastal Plain....


VIDEO: First of Two Sections of NYC's $1.45B East Side Coastal Resiliency Project Is Complete

New York City has completed the first section of its East Side Coastal Resiliency (ESCR) project ahead of schedule and under budget, Mayor Eric Adams announced Oct. 17. It marks a major milestone in the effort to protect more than 110,000 Lower East Side residents, including 28,000 in public housing, from future storms and high tides and protect billions of dollars' worth of infrastructure and property in the area....


NYC Completes Phase II of Broad Channel Project

The NYC Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), the NYC Department of Transportation (NYC DOT) and the NYC Department of Design and Construction (DDC) announced the completion of a $51 million infrastructure project that raised streets, installed new storm sewers and reconstructed bulkheads in Broad Channel, Queens....


Rising Tides, Worse Storms Lead Two Maine Towns to Solutions in Battling Climate Change

In Stonington, Maine, Town Manager Kathleen Billings has the Federal Emergency Management Agency's 2016 100-year flood map tacked on the wall above her desk. Eight years later, she is leading her town in efforts to fortify the community's infrastructure against ocean warming, worsening storms and rising tides....


Vermont Floods Prompt Sen. Peter Welch to Ask Congress for Federal Aid

Vermont residents awakened Aug. 1 to a quieter weather forecast with no flood warnings following another round of destructive storms earlier in week. Even before floodwaters receded, though, the state's Democratic U.S....


Minnesota Flooding Affects Construction Crew

After several years of hot, dry weather, record breaking, monsoon-like rains rolled into the state of Minnesota this spring and stubbornly held a tight grip on the region going into early July. Residents and businesses in many smaller communities throughout the state have endured flooding in their streets and homes, in some cases over-powering local storm sewer systems....


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