Megan Sausser – Idaho Transportation Department - Tue December 17, 2019
ITD Remembers 1995 Noseeum Creek Flooding on U.S.-12
When 400,000 tons of mud, rock, trees and other debris obliterated 1,200 ft. of highway on Nov. 20, 1995, it created "the biggest slide of my career," said Mark Schuster, maintenance foreman of U.S.-12 for the last three decades....
Associated Press - Wed December 11, 2019
USACE Awards 2nd Contract for $2.75B Red River Diversion
FARGO, N.D. (AP) The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has awarded its second contract for a Red River diversion project around the flood-prone Fargo and Moorhead, Minn., metropolitan area. The Corps announced that the more than $59 million project to build a flow control structure on the Wild Rice River will be built by Ames Construction Inc., based out of Burnsville, Minn....
Brenda Ruggiero – CEG Correspondent - Mon December 09, 2019
After Years of Flooding, Work Still Remains in Pennsylvania
The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) Engineering District 3 continues to work to remedy the challenges created by above average precipitation in north central Pennsylvania. This has occurred since 2016 and has resulted in flooding in many areas....
Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - Mon December 02, 2019
Morganza to the Gulf Protection Project Yields Billions in Work Contracts in La.
The Terrebonne Levee & Conservation District (TLCD) and the Louisiana Coastal Protection & Restoration Authority (CPRA) are taking the lead on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' $10.3 billion Morganza to the Gulf Hurricane Protection Project in Louisiana, which so far has received an investment of more than $450 million in construction work for levees and floodgates....
Brenda Ruggiero – CEG Correspondent - Mon November 25, 2019
Preventing Floods in an NYC Neighborhood
Work has begun on the $39 million Phase II of the New Creek Bluebelt on Staten Island, N.Y. The project is for the New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) and is being done by the New York City Department of Design and Construction (DDC)....
PennDOT - Thu October 10, 2019
PennDOT Provides Update on Flood Efforts in North Central Pennsylvania
The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) Engineering District 3 continues to face challenges following the flooding and above average precipitation that has impacted north central Pennsylvania since 2016....
Harris County Flood Control District - Tue September 10, 2019
Major Buffalo Bayou Repairs Being Made to Contain Erosion
The Harris County Flood Control District in coordination with the Buffalo Bayou Partnership has begun completing major repairs along Buffalo Bayou, between Shepherd Drive to Sabine Street, to contain erosion and bank failures caused by Hurricane Harvey....
Lori Tobias – CEG Correspondent - Tue August 20, 2019
Ohio State Re-Routes Thoroughfare to Protect Campus
A road project currently underway to protect the Ohio State University from flooding will have come with an added bonus once completed — additional acreage on which plans for development are already in the works by school administrators....
Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - Wed August 07, 2019
Army Corps' First-Ever P3 Project Presses On
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' $2,841,062,000 (current estimate) Fargo-Moorhead Metropolitan Area Flood Risk Management Project is pressing forward, and one of the ongoing elements is the $46,040,475 Diversion Inlet Structure (DIS) initiative in the city of Horace, N.D....
OhioDOT - Tue July 23, 2019
Weather Wrecks Ohio's Roads
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine announced today that he has declared a state of emergency in 63 Ohio counties where severe weather caused serious highway damage last month. The 63 counties covered by the emergency declaration have suffered damage to roads and/or bridges from significant weather events in June that began with mild temperatures and significant rains which thoroughly saturated the ground causing dangerous roadway damage....
