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Thanks for posting. I thought it was an excellent article, too, and posted it in the Risk Management Community of Practice. N.B. You and others might want to join this group. https://collaborate.asce.org/riskmanagement/discussion/how-our-flood-risk-language-needs-to-evolve#bmc52a5311-2816-47f4-b3b5-03dd0bb2ce33 ...

A Civil Engineering Source article by Dr Ceyda Polatel on Aug 25, 2026: 'That will never happen again:' How are flood-risk language needs to evolve – discusses an issue that has long been understood as a misleading way of communicating to the public. ...

ASCE's Risk Management Community of Practice is proposing a Special Collection for the Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal, and Ocean Engineering. The collection will address risks – what can go wrong, likelihood it can go wrong, and consequences if it goes wrong – in these engineering specialties and ...

That's a good one, Chris. Funding cuts to the National Weather Service have thinned our already sparse precipitation measurement network, requiring extrapolations we know to be inaccurate. Dense networks such as you describe would be invaluable. Bill Mc ------------------------------ William McAnally ...

It's very resourceful – thanks Nancy for going to the extra mile on this – on informing the Collaborate ECOI Community on SLR and enhanced storminess issues and engineering challenges. When I was writing the Flood Barrier Systems ...

Thanks, Dilip. I will definitely read your essays. As I understand, the Charleston Tidal and Inland Study will address storm surge in the area of Charleston and may consider storm surge barriers. The Dutch Chronicles, Dutch Dialogues | Charleston, SC - Official Website found that "A regional, ...