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Landscaping to prevent water from damaging your home or flooding your basement is a smart strategy. Learn seven easy steps that everyone, from gardening newbies to seasoned pros, can try.
Flood debris crowds the side of county Route 14 in Canisteo, which suffered extensive damage during Friday's flood. Local, state reps: Steuben needs to clear debris from flood-prone waterways
Flood mapping is a tool used by governments and policy makers to delineate the borders of potential flooding events, allowing educated decisions to prevent extreme flooding events. [62] Flood maps are useful to create documentation that allows policy makers to make informed decisions about flood hazards. [ 63 ]
Infiltration trench, is a type of best management practice (BMP) that is used to manage stormwater runoff, prevent flooding and downstream erosion, and improve water quality in an adjacent river, stream, lake or bay. It is a shallow excavated trench filled with gravel or crushed stone that is designed to infiltrate stormwater though permeable ...
The Water Resources Program has begun to focus on using rain gardens as green infrastructure in urban areas, such as Camden and Newark to help prevent localized flooding, combined sewer overflows, and to improve water quality. The Water Resources Program has also revised and produced a rain garden manual in collaboration with The Native Plant ...
A state of emergency has been declared for Summit County and several surrounding areas after last week's storms brought tornadoes and flooding.. Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine declared an emergency in ...
The Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District (MWCD) is a political subdivision of the State of Ohio organized in 1933 to develop and implement a plan for flood reduction and water conservation in the Muskingum River watershed, the state's largest wholly contained watershed, covering more than 8,000 square miles (21,000 km 2). Since the original ...
In addition, heavy rainfall could cause localized flooding, with new rainfall amounts of ⅒-¼ inches and higher amounts possible during thunderstorms across central and west-central Ohio ...