Category: Flood Control and Drainage Engineering

US Supreme Court Limits Wetland Protection, Flood Mitigation Benefits Valued at $177 Billion

A new study shows that wetland loss in the United States over the past 40 years has led to a $10 bil...

2026-06-05

EIC Releases Three-Point Plan to Place Nature at the Heart of UK Infrastructure

The Environmental Industries Commission (EIC) has published "Delivering Natural Infrastructure: A Th...

2026-06-05

Melbourne Water to Release Banyule Flood Map in June 2026

Melbourne Water plans to release a new interactive flood map in Banyule in mid-June 2026, which will...

2026-06-05

United Utilities completes first phase of Salford sewer upgrade

United Utilities has achieved a key milestone in a sewer upgrade in the Eccles area of Salford – the...

2026-06-04

US ALCOSAN Awards $1 Billion Ohio River Tunnel Contract

A key milestone has been reached in a water environment protection project in Pittsburgh, with the o...

2026-06-04

Bangladesh Prime Minister Chairs Meeting to Address Waterlogging in DND Embankment Area

Bangladesh Prime Minister Tarique Rahman chaired a meeting to discuss solutions to the long-standing...

2026-06-04

Dagupan City Launches Waterway Dredging Project

The Engineering Office of Dagupan City, Philippines, is conducting dredging and channel clearing ope...

2026-06-04

French Seine-Normandy Water Agency Signs €15.4 Million Contract for 2026-2030

Patrice Baillet, President of the Public Planning and Management Body for the Armançon Basin (EPAGE ...

2026-06-03

DFI 2026 Annual Conference to Focus on Sea Level Impacts

The Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) will hold its 51st Annual Conference (DFI51) from November 2 to...

2026-06-03

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Releases Oceanside Beach Sand Replenishment Plan

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) has tentatively selected a beach sand replenishment plan to...

2026-06-03

Fogarty Finger Proposes Flood-Resilient Architectural Design Strategies

Faced with increasingly frequent floods and severe inundation, architectural design must balance com...

2026-06-02

Sweco Secures SEK 140 Million Framework Agreement for Flood and Erosion Protection in Norway

Sweco has been awarded a framework agreement by the Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate...

2026-06-02

Santa Catarina launches 943-meter tunnel in 2026, costing R$20 million

The city of Xanxerê, in western Santa Catarina, Brazil, began excavation of a 943-meter underground ...

2026-06-02

Brazil's Santos: Giant waves shift 3,000 tons of sand, mechanical dredging prevents flooding

The coastal city of Santos in São Paulo state, Brazil, has been experiencing frequent giant waves, c...

2026-06-02

146 rivers in China exceed flood warning levels since start of flood season

On May 29, the Ministry of Water Resources reported at a press briefing in Beijing that since the st...

2026-05-30

Australia Adds A$114 Million to Accelerate Delivery of New Richmond Bridge

The second phase of the New Richmond Bridge project, driven by additional joint funding from the Aus...

2026-05-29

$7 Million Stormwater Improvement Project Breaks Ground at Corbin Park in the U.S.

Officials from Volusia County, Florida, along with representatives from New Smyrna Beach and project...

2026-05-28

China's Ministry of Water Resources Releases 2025 "China River Sediment Bulletin": Total Sediment Transport Reaches 401 Million Tons

China's Ministry of Water Resources released the 2025 "China River Sediment Bulletin" on the 27th, r...

2026-05-28

China First Metallurgical Group-led Consortium Wins Bid for 915 Million Yuan Infrastructure Project in Sihui City, Guangdong

The results for the general contract of survey, design, and construction for the transformation and ...

2026-05-26

First Large-Scale Dredging in 42 Years Begins at Zeekoevlei Wetland in Cape Town, South Africa

The City of Cape Town, South Africa, has recently launched the second phase of the Zeekoevlei dredgi...

2026-05-26

Bangladesh's Prime Minister and BNP Pledges to Launch Teesta Barrage Project Upon Taking Office

Bangladesh's Prime Minister and Chairman of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), Tarique Rahman, ...

2026-05-21

Chile's THS Ingeniería Launches Unmanned Surface Vessel iBoat BS12 for High-Precision Hydrographic Surveying

Chilean engineering firm THS Ingeniería has officially launched the iBoat BS12, an Unmanned Surface ...

2026-05-20

Indian PM Modi Visits the Netherlands' Afsluitdijk, Focusing on Water Engineering Cooperation

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently visited the iconic Dutch water engineering project, the...

2026-05-18

US FlatironDragados Advances $518 Million Flood Prevention Project in Virginia Beach

US infrastructure firm FlatironDragados has entered the construction phase of a $518 million flood p...

2026-05-16

Government of Canada Invests $25 Million to Advance Shoreline Stabilization Project Along Laval's Thousand Islands Parkway

The City of Laval, Quebec, Canada, has announced the launch of a major shoreline stabilization proje...

2026-05-16
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