Environment, Coasts, Oceans, & Infrastructure

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A technical forum to discuss water resources and coastal environments. Topics include floodplain regulation, sediment management, stormwater treatment, selection of pipe material and contaminants on soil properties.
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  • Michael – your list shows the multi-institutional awareness and approach – in mitigating the Houston Storm Surge and storm induced intense rain-flooding problems. It is encouraging. When diverse thinking are given a chance to flower – there appear ...

  • Expanding on your question, one can take a number of steps as an individual homeowner for storm preparedness. I used the term storm as much of Jouston is at risk of flooding and structural inundation from random rain events. Individual mitigations not ...

  • Lots of stuff is happening. Voters approved a $2.5 billion flood mitigation bond. https://www.hcfcd.org/2018-bond-program City and county have strengthened already very strict floodplain development rules that include freeboard and "no adverse ...

  • Lived in Houston for about a year and sure we will have a major Hurricane event . Going there next week . What as engineers doing going forward to control loss. ------------------------------ Len Andersen ------------------------------

  • To your point, I was recently in Santiago Chile and visited the Iglesia de San Francisco. the oldest structure in the city. Of special significance, the 17th century structure has withstood at least 15 earthquakes of magnitude over 7. The structure is ...

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