C. Ashley Couch, drainage and flood control program manager at City of Scottsdale, Arizona, has issued a public comment on the Federal Emergency Management Agency notice entitled "Request for Information: National Flood Insurance Program's Community Rating System". Currently, only stormwater storage basins based on pre vs. post hydrology are fully creditable,.
Funding to tame flooding from Pajaro River now in place Share Updated: 7:11 PM PDT May 24, 2021 Share Updated: 7:11 PM PDT May 24, 2021
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Show Transcript TO SHORE UP RESILIENCE AHEAD OF HURRICANE SEASON AND WESTERN WILDFIRES. IN WATSONVILLE. BIG DEVELOPMENTS FOR FLOOD PREVENTION EFFTSOR ALONG THE PAJARO RIVER. TODAY LOCAL, STATE AND FEDERAL REPRESENTATIVES SIGNED AN AGREEMENT.. TO MANAGE THE RIVER LEVEE FROM FLOODING HOMES AND FARMS LIKE YOU SEE HERE IN 2017. CT AION NEWS EIGHT REPORTER PHIL GOMEZ, JOI NS US LIVE FROM WATSONVILLE WITH MORE ON THE PLAN.PHIL??? OVER-ALL IT S A FOUR- HUNDRED MILLION PROJECT DESIGNED TO TAME T HE CONSTANT THREAT OF FLOODING BROUGHT ON BY HEAVY RAIN-FALL THE RAINS OF 19-95 WERE SO DEVASTATING TH TAT HE PAJARO LEVEES JUST COULDN T HOLD BACK. PRIME FARMLAND AND HOMES WERE UNDERWATER. FLOODING HAS BEEN AN ISSUE SINCE IT WAS BUILT IN -4199 THE MOST RECENT FLOODING WAS NOT LONG AGO, IN 20-17 A
CEDAR RAPIDS Flood threats are too familiar to Al Pierson, owner of a 92-year-old business in the Time Check neighborhood.
He recalls six times that Pierson’s Flower Shop and Greenhouses, 1800 Ellis Blvd. NW, has faced rising waters from the Cedar River. He’s had to evacuate before, but the 2008 flood marked the first time floodwater actually came on the property.
“It isn’t just the people that get wet,” said Pierson, whose business closed for five months after the flood. “It’s the whole city that is affected mentally, physically, economically.”
When businesses get flooded, they have to close for prolonged periods or potentially relocate, Pierson said, ultimately hurting the economy and the workers who fuel it.