A study led by Francisco Vallés Morán, a researcher at the Institute of Water and Environmental Engineering (IIAMA) at the Universitat Politècnica de València, has analyzed in detail the flooding ...

Blackburn said some areas, particularly in high-flood-risk corridors such as northeast Harris County, along Greens Bayou, ...

Real-time data can also be captured by drones during and after flood events. Another technology used is a modeling program called ICM that’s used for large watersheds. It will model underground flow ...

For half a century, a federal program has covered most at-risk properties. Now, a private company is pitching a plan to shrink the government’s role. By Scott Dance Reporting from Washington Flood ...

MANVILLE, N.J.—Richard Onderko said he will never forget the terrifying Saturday morning back in 1971 when the water rose so swiftly at his childhood home here that he and his brother had to be ...

Seattle was spared from the worst of recent flooding, but the raging rivers in Western Washington sent lots of trees and logs into Puget Sound. That can mean trouble for captains sailing through ...

Tukwila, Wash. — Residents near a breached levee in Washington state were told to evacuate early Tuesday, just hours after an evacuation alert was lifted for residents near another broken levee in the ...

TUKWILA, Wash. (AP) — Crews used sandbags to shore up an earthen levee south of Seattle on Monday after a small section of it failed following a week of heavy rains, prompting an evacuation order ...

The Army Corps of Engineers was able to reduce flooding on the Skagit River with emergency operations of two hydropower dams upstream. Big dams have big downsides, including killing salmon and ...