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5 months, 4 weeks ago

Iowa floodwaters breach levees as even more rain dumps onto parts of the Midwest

DES MOINES, Iowa — Tornado warnings, flash flooding and large hail added insult to injury for people in the Midwest already contending with heat, humidity and intense flooding after days of rain. The sheriff’s office in Monona County, near the Nebraska border, said the Little Sioux River breached levees in several areas. “Normally, this river is barely a trickle,” 71-year-old …

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7 months, 1 week ago

Newsom administration unveils new $20-billion cost estimate for delta water tunnel

LA Times

Gavin Newsom’s administration announced that the estimated cost of building a tunnel to transport water beneath the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta has risen to $20.1 billion. “Instead of foisting the costs of this boondoggle project onto Californians, the state should invest in sustainable water solutions that promise to restore the delta ecosystem, not destroy it,” Barrigan-Parrilla said. “If we do …

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8 months, 1 week ago

California granted federal disaster relief for historic February storms

LA Times

Evan Ricciardi, 18, a student at Biola University, takes his turn using a rope from a footbridge to stay in position and surf stormwater rushing through a La Mirada flood control channel during heavy rain in Southern California in February. In San Luis Obispo County, where two tornados touched down, the storms damaged eight steel firehouse bay doors and the …

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10 months, 4 weeks ago

Lawsuit seeks to protect dolphins if flood-control spillway is used near New Orleans

Associated Press

— Opening a spillway as a flood-control measure in 2019 sent polluted fresh water from the Mississippi River into the Gulf of Mexico and killed bottlenose dolphins that live in saltwater, according to a new lawsuit. Several local governments and business groups on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, calling themselves the Mississippi Sound Coalition, filed the federal lawsuit Monday against the …

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11 months, 2 weeks ago

Critical Infrastructure Is Sinking Along the US East Coast

Wired

Courtesy of Leonard O Ohenhen With each millimeter of subsidence, it gets easier for storm surges—essentially a wall of seawater, which hurricanes are particularly good at pushing onshore—to creep farther inland, destroying more and more infrastructure. “And it’s not just about sea levels,” says the study’s lead author, Leonard Ohenhen, an environmental security expert at Virginia Tech. “You also have …

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1 year, 1 month ago

Water board tax to rise next year due to climate change and inflation

NL Times

Water board taxes in the Netherlands will increase next year by several tens of euros, the Dutch Water Authorities reported on Monday. Following a survey of the 21 water boards by the Dutch Water Authorities, it was determined that the water board tax would have to “increase considerably” next year. Not only residents, but also farmers, businesses, and nature reserve …

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1 year, 3 months ago

A marshy, minuscule S.F. Bay island is for sale for $75 million, with one peculiar buyer in mind

LA Times

California is well-known for its skyscraping real estate prices. So maybe it’s not surprising that the owner of Point Buckler Island — 50 acres of marshland at the edge of San Francisco Bay in Solano County — recently listed the property for $75 million. Originally home to duck and kiteboarding clubs, the island is being marketed as a “great escape …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Raging Yamuna brings back memories of 1978 tragedy

The Hindu

As parts of Delhi grapple with flooding and residents of low-lying areas try to keep their heads above water, Sunita Sood, 73, knows how difficult things can get. I remember how people struggled for drinking water and food,” says Mr. Sood, who was the Deputy Director of Central Water Commission at the time. “The Roorkee-Delhi Road was under water,” according …

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1 year, 6 months ago

One way to lower California's flood risk? Give rivers space : Short Wave

NPR

One way to lower California's flood risk? Give rivers space toggle caption Lauren Sommer/NPR With much of California's massive snowpack yet to melt, downstream communities remain on high alert for flooding. Today, NPR climate correspondent Lauren Sommer talks about a new approach: just giving rivers some space to flow. Levees are being removed and moved back, creating natural floodplains that …

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1 year, 6 months ago

California is still at risk of flooding. Maybe rivers just need some space

NPR

California is still at risk of flooding. "We love to see the floodwater on our property," says Jon Carlon, co-founder of River Partners, as he looks across the water from an aluminum boat. "Rivers move and that's a really hard concept for us with property rights and roads and infrastructure," Carlon says. toggle caption Lauren Sommer/NPR Regulations are for levees …

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1 year, 6 months ago

Opinion: We’ve seen the flooding in California. Will we move to higher ground?

LA Times

The slow-motion rebirth of Tulare Lake has inundated farm fields and threatened levees, homes and whole towns. Yet the flooded crops and tenuous levees at Tulare Lake represent only a fraction of the statewide and nationwide landscape now subject to greater floods of the global warming era. Here’s how bad it can get: In Houston, one home initially valued at …

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1 year, 8 months ago

Opinion: Catastrophic floods and breached levees reveal a problem California too often neglects

LA Times

For much of the past decade, Californians have been fixated on drought, and rightly so. Third, as recent work at UC Irvine has shown, flood preparedness efforts tend to focus narrowly on meeting the bare-minimum federal standards — standards few floodplain managers consider adequate. Our flood management infrastructure, meanwhile, is aging: Most of California’s levees, dams, coastal protections and flood …

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1 year, 8 months ago

Opinion: Don’t call it a comeback: California’s Tulare Lake never really went away

LA Times

Floodwaters from a break in levees in the San Joaquin Valley floods a farming operation near Corcoran on March 21. Tulare Lake, a local body of water that was largely drained more than 100 years ago, has been filling up after powerful winter storms. As the Algerian French philosopher Jacques Derrida wrote: “A ghost never dies; it remains always to …

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1 year, 9 months ago

California deals with surging rivers, sliding rocks and flooded towns as storm passes

LA Times

Herbeto Estrada rescues his two birds from his home along Salinas Road in Pajaro, Calif., on Tuesday. The increased flow from the spillway is adding more water to the river and tributaries below, both of which are already full from the last storm, Monteiro said, adding that there is “flood concern.” An orchard worker clears storm drains on a Porterville …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Residents left in flooded California farm town feel ‘abandoned’ as levees fail

LA Times

The migrant town of Pajaro, Calif., was flooded last week during powerful storms that caused the levee to break. “I know some people criticize us for not leaving, but the flooding danger isn’t here, it’s somewhere else,” Alvarez said, pointing south toward Salinas Road, which was submerged in water. “If the water continues to erode through the levee such that …

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1 year, 9 months ago

As Pajaro River levees erode, officials consider severing Highway 1 to relieve pressure

LA Times

A crew works on repairing a levee rupture on the Pajaro River in Monterey County on Tuesday. “The real question today is about manually breaching a section to relieve pressure,” said Zach Friend, a Santa Cruz County supervisor whose district includes Watsonville, which is now threatened by the swelling Pajaro River. Adding to the challenge is that water flowing through …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Age, drought, rodents and neglect weaken California levees, heightening flood danger

LA Times

Much of the Monterey County town of Pajaro, just across the Pajaro River from Watsonville, was flooded when a levee failed early Saturday. “That’s just the very unfortunate way the planning and development process has worked over the past 100 plus years in the United States.” Throughout Northern California, the Central Valley and the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, there are …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Storm breaches California river’s levee, thousands evacuate

Associated Press

WATSONVILLE, Calif. — A Northern California agricultural community famous for its strawberry crop was forced to evacuate early Saturday after the Pajaro River’s levee was breached by flooding from a new atmospheric river that pummeled the state. Across the Central Coast’s Monterey County, more than 8,500 people were under evacuation orders and warnings Saturday, including roughly 1,700 residents — many …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Yet more rain expected to hit California in March. Warmer storms could cause problems

LA Times

Soggy, snow-capped California faces the likelihood of yet another month of wet weather, but what remains uncertain is whether this late winter precipitation will augment weeks of record-setting snowpack, or cause it to vanish should warmer rains arrive. California Photos: Two atmospheric river storms descend on California California’s deadly storm season continued Friday as the first of two atmospheric river …

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1 year, 11 months ago

New storms set to hit a rain-battered California, with Monterey Peninsula at serious risk

LA Times

A police officer tapes off dangerous areas of driftwood along Capitola Beach on Tuesday on California’s storm-battered Central Coast. Many low-lying areas along the Salinas River valley in Monterey County, from the coast to Jolan Road, were under evacuation orders or warnings “until further notice.” Flooding could sever access between the Monterey Peninsula and areas north of it, including Salinas, …

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1 year, 11 months ago

California’s dilemma: How do you harness an epic amount of rain in a water-scarce state? Let it flood, scientists say

CNN

CNN — California has gone from extreme drought to extreme flooding in a matter of days. “That will allow us to capture more of these flood flows, store it underground in these aquifers, and then use those ground water resources when we need them in dry years.” Many climate experts agree – using levees to prevent floods during the wet …

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1 year, 11 months ago

Deadly results as dramatic climate whiplash causes California’s aging levees to fail

LA Times

Three vehicles are partly submerged on a roadway in Wilton, Calif., in south Sacramento County, after heavy rains on New Year’s Eve caused levees along the Cosumnes River to fail. As California was hit by yet another “brutal” storm system Wednesday, Mount and others warned that lack of maintenance and changing hydrology would increase flood risk in the coming years. …

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1 year, 11 months ago

Toddler killed, cities evacuated as massive storm lashes Northern California

LA Times

A powerful winter storm unleashed pounding rain and strong winds across Northern California on Wednesday, leaving a small child dead, triggering evacuations and power outages, and heightening fears of widespread flooding and debris flows. Gavin Newsom to declare a state of emergency to “support response and recovery efforts.” California Photos: Southern California reeling from days of destructive storms The powerful …

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1 year, 11 months ago

Deadly storm pummels Northern California, breaching levees, forcing many water rescues

LA Times

Nurse Katie Leonard, left, helps Scott Mathers rescue his mother, Patsy Costello, 88, after Costello’s car stalled Saturday on a flooded road in Pleasant Hill, Calif., trapping her for over an hour. After a powerful New Year’s Eve storm triggered landslides, blackouts and road closures across California, residents were left to deal with the aftermath Sunday as forecasters warned of …

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Iowa floodwaters breach levees as even more rain dumps onto parts of the Midwest

Newsom administration unveils new $20-billion cost estimate for delta water tunnel

California granted federal disaster relief for historic February storms

Lawsuit seeks to protect dolphins if flood-control spillway is used near New Orleans

Critical Infrastructure Is Sinking Along the US East Coast

Water board tax to rise next year due to climate change and inflation

A marshy, minuscule S.F. Bay island is for sale for $75 million, with one peculiar buyer in mind

Raging Yamuna brings back memories of 1978 tragedy

One way to lower California's flood risk? Give rivers space : Short Wave

California is still at risk of flooding. Maybe rivers just need some space

Opinion: We’ve seen the flooding in California. Will we move to higher ground?

Opinion: Catastrophic floods and breached levees reveal a problem California too often neglects

Opinion: Don’t call it a comeback: California’s Tulare Lake never really went away

California deals with surging rivers, sliding rocks and flooded towns as storm passes

Residents left in flooded California farm town feel ‘abandoned’ as levees fail

As Pajaro River levees erode, officials consider severing Highway 1 to relieve pressure

Age, drought, rodents and neglect weaken California levees, heightening flood danger

Storm breaches California river’s levee, thousands evacuate

Yet more rain expected to hit California in March. Warmer storms could cause problems

New storms set to hit a rain-battered California, with Monterey Peninsula at serious risk

California’s dilemma: How do you harness an epic amount of rain in a water-scarce state? Let it flood, scientists say

Deadly results as dramatic climate whiplash causes California’s aging levees to fail

Toddler killed, cities evacuated as massive storm lashes Northern California

Deadly storm pummels Northern California, breaching levees, forcing many water rescues