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2. PA creates flood mitigation task force. What it will do, and ...

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   Governor Josh Shapiro, center, joined by local elected official to ceremonially sign House Bill 735 on Monday, Dec. 4 2023. HB 735 establishes the Flood Insurance Premium Assistance Task Force.

3. How Cities Are Using Nature-Based Solutions to Tackle Floods

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   Climate change is already making extreme flooding more frequent and intense and by 2050 100-year flood events are projected to occur at least twice as frequently as today across 40% of the planet.

4. Trout Brook (Toby Creek tributary) - Wikipedia

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   Trout Brook is a tributary of Toby Creek in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. It is approximately 3.4 miles (5.5 km) long and flows through Dallas Township . [ 1 ] Its watershed has an area of 4.20 square miles (10.9 km 2 ).

5. Conemaugh Dam - Wikipedia

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   The dam is one of 16 flood control structures in the Corps' Pittsburgh District. [2] With a capacity of 355,000 acre-feet (438,000 dam 3), the lake is usually kept at a much lower level of 5,140 acre-feet (6,340 dam 3), to accommodate flash floods. [1] Water is released as quickly as possible while not exacerbating flooding conditions downstream.

6. Tocks Island Dam controversy - Wikipedia

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   In order to control damaging flooding and provide clean water to supply New York City and Philadelphia, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers proposed building a dam. When completed, the Tocks Island Dam would have created a 37-mile (60-km) long lake between Pennsylvania and New Jersey, with depths of up to 140 feet. This lake and the land ...

7. A new solution for flood-prone cities? Concrete made from ...

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8. South Fork Dam - Wikipedia

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   A modern view of the South Fork Dam. The large gap overlooked by the two wooden terraces pictured is the breach that caused the Johnstown Flood.. The South Fork Dam was an earthenwork dam forming Lake Conemaugh (formerly Western Reservoir, also known as the Old Reservoir and Three Mile Dam, a misnomer), [1] an artificial body of water near South Fork, Pennsylvania, United States.

9. Heavy rains swamp Northeast again as flash flooding claims at ...

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   Heavy rains pounded an already saturated Northeast on Sunday for the second time in a week, spurring another round of flash flooding, cancelled airline flights and power outages. Officials in ...