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There is a SOURCE Article published on its June 12 th issue – that reviewed the 2024 The Great River … book by Boyce Upholt. We have discussed different aspects of the Mississippi River engineering management issues before – this article rejuvenates them again. It questions to extent engineering ...

The ASCE EWRI Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence (ML/AI) Applications in Water Engineering Task Committee was established in Fall 2024. Comprising members from consulting firms, academia, and water utilities, the committee is committed to advancing AI technologies in water engineering. Its ...

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 clarity and convergence of solution options, ...

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 in any order include Know the risk of flooding ...

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 impact" floodplain modeling. https://library.municode.com/tx/houston/codes/code_of_ordinances?nodeId=COOR_CH19FL ...

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 ------------------------------