Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-East personnel perform a successful test operation of the Inner Harbor Navigation Canal Surge Barrier in New Orleans. This year marks the 20th ...

Hurricane Katrina and Superstorm Sandy rank as two of the most devastating storms to hit the United States, but the calamities prompted markedly different approaches to future flood protection. In the ...

In conjunction with the opening of hurricane season, volunteer members of the Bay Area Coastal Protection Alliance, along with government, community and industry leaders, today introduced a storm ...

Coastal flooding disasters have occurred periodically through history often followed by construction of flood defenses to help ensure it does not happen again. One of the most well known was the 1953 ...

For the second time in two weeks, Tampa General Hospital is getting ready to keep water at bay. Hurricane Milton is expected to make landfall Wednesday and will test the hospital's flood barrier. It ...

Ending a 14-year stalemate over plans to upgrade Grand Isle's storm-surge protection, Gov. Bobby Jindal's administration signed an agreement Thursday with the Army Corps of Engineers for a $50 million ...

Walter P Moore and Rice University created a plan to link the islands along Galveston Bay to protect the mainland from Category 5 hurricanes. It’s not if, but when, a Category 5 hurricane crashes into ...

Jacobs Solutions Inc. J has secured a landmark contract from the Gulf Coast Protection District to lead the engineering ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers released a report Saturday detailing their proposed $52 billion plan to protect the New York City metropolitan area from storm surges and coastal flooding. It marks a ...

Construction of the Inner Harbor Navigation Canal surge barrier is on track and should be completed by its June 2011 deadline, Army Corps of Engineers officials said during a tour of the work Thursday ...

BOSTON — From a boat in the middle of Boston Harbor, William Golden pointed out gleaming skyscrapers rising all over the Seaport, shipping docks and new apartment buildings dotting the shore from Deer ...