With the new machines, flood control’s specialized employees won’t have to take as much time to trim weeds. They can instead refocus on operating heavy machinery during other projects ...

HARTSBURG — The Boone County Office of Emergency Management recently purchased two mechanical sandbagging machines to help with flooding control. The machines fill sandbags automatically through ...

In 1879 Congress created the Mississippi River Commission to oversee federal funds for flood control. The Commission was a response to the long-standing dispute between James Buchanan Eads ...

Officials in Bridgeville are hoping that a $5.3 million grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for flood control will be reinstated after it was announced the program dispersing the ...

The U.S. and Canada have fine-tuned that machine since the Columbia River ... “Either country alone could build dams and do stuff for flood control and power production and whatever else they ...