In recent weeks, powerful atmospheric river storms have swept across Washington, Oregon and California, unloading enormous amounts of rain. As rivers surged, they overtopped or breached multiple ...

Farshid Vahedifard received funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). He is affiliated with the United Nations University ...

Contractors install steel-reinforced PVC that interlocks as is fed through manholes into a Wyoming Valley Sanitary Authority interceptor line in Wilkes-Barre, creating a new standalone pipe within the ...

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MILTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) - The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers are putting the final touches on designing the lower Mud River flood risk management project in Milton. The project helps keep the city safe, ...

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 same county.

Days of heavy rain triggered widespread flooding in western Washington, claiming the life of one person near Seattle on Tuesday. The Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office announced the death of the man ...

Residents forced from their homes by Tuesday’s HESCO barrier failure will likely have to wait until the weekend before they can return, Pacific Mayor Vic Kave said at a press conference Tuesday ...

KING COUNTY, Wash. — Late into a nearly hour-long news conference, the head of King County’s Department of Natural Resources and Parks made a sobering statement about weak spots in the county’s levee ...