CEG - Tue July 22, 2025
Industry Helps With Texas Flood Recovery
When disaster strikes, it takes a concerted effort among many people to help communities recover. In the aftermath of the deadly floods in Texas' Hill Country over the July 4 weekend, the construction industry is playing a critical role in helping the community return to some semblance of normalcy....
CEG - Tue July 22, 2025
New Mexico Town Also Digs Out From Damaging Floods
While the devastating floods in Texas received massive media attention, tragic flooding in neighboring New Mexico received less national coverage. For the second year in a row, the mountain village of Ruidoso in south-central New Mexico fell victim to deadly floods....
Asbury Park Press - Wed July 16, 2025
New Jersey Wants Updated Height Standards for New Construction in Flood-Prone Areas
New Jersey environmental regulators have proposed rules that would raise the minimum height of new construction in flood prone areas of the state, including the Jersey Shore. Among the changes, announced July 14, 2025, is a reduced height requirement that is one ft....
Keene Sentinel - Wed July 16, 2025
Officials in N.H. Hope They Are Prepared for Next Big Flood in Hilly Monadnock Region
On a sheet of notebook paper, retired government meteorologist Andrew Woodcock draws what he calls the worst-case scenario for flooding in southwestern New Hampshire's mountainous Monadnock Region. Blue and pink colored-pencil lines mark out a dying cold front over northern New England....
Kubota - Tue July 15, 2025
Kubota North America Supports Texas Flood Recovery With $100,000 Donation, Construction Equipment, Generators to Aid Clean-Up Efforts
In response to the devastating floods that swept through Kerrville and surrounding areas of central Texas over the Fourth of July holiday weekend, Kubota North America announced a contribution to assist in clean-up and restoration efforts with the donation of construction equipment, generators and $100,000 to help the affected communities recover from this disaster....
WUSF Public Media - Mon May 12, 2025
Tampa Bay Area Governments Looking for Ways to Prevent Inland Flooding from Hurricanes
Douglas Woods was still sloshing through 3-ft.-high waves to get to his home in October 2024, nearly a week after Hurricane Milton put his Land O'Lakes neighborhood under water. "I moved here in 1994, and I've had water in my garage a couple of times, so this is by far the worst that I've ever seen," Woods told WUSF Public Media in Tampa....
Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk - Mon April 14, 2025
Mississippi River Officials, Town Mayors Worry Over Loss of Flood-Control Funding
An official with the federal Mississippi River Commission (MRC) is warning of a potential backlog for flood–control work as its budget flatlines. The concerns come as portions of the lower river basin face increased flood risk and mayors in towns and cities along the Mississippi are lobbying Congress for more funding for flood control....
Blue Ridge Public Radio - Wed April 02, 2025
With FEMA Easing Major Floodplain Construction Rules, Impact on Storm Recovery Unclear
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is no longer enforcing certain rules around rebuilding in floodplains as a Trump administration decision rolls some federal funding criteria back to pre-Obama administration standards....
CT Post - Thu March 27, 2025
Following Last Summer's Flooding, Oxford, Conn., Reopens Last of Seven Damaged Bridges
Officials in Oxford, Conn., hailed the reopening of the town's Park Road bridge on the morning of March 25, 2025, which marked the completion of the seventh and final bridge replacement project there following catastrophic flooding that hit the area more than seven months ago....
By Chuck MacDonald - Wed February 05, 2025
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....
