Tag: mitigation
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Flood risks: Preparing for urban floods with an eye toward equity
Flood waters from the San Francisquito Creek reached apartment complexes in East Palo Alto, California, during a storm event on Dec. 31, 2022. | Courtesy of the San Francisquito Creek Joint Powers Authority Plans for flood mitigation along urban rivers often benefit some neighborhoods more than others. Researchers and collaborators in a densely populated California floodplain developed…
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Giant Sequoias Are in Big Trouble. How Best to Save Them?
The Windy Fire burns in Sequoia National Forest in September 2021. Noah Berger / AP Photo California’s ancient sequoias — some of which have stood more than 1,000 years — are facing an existential threat from increasingly intense wildfires linked to climate change. But federal efforts to thin forests to reduce fire risks are drawing…
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Shorelines that Can Shapeshift AND Stay Put?
Photo: Mario Accordino, ESA. The shore remained elusive on the drizzly May morning as a crack technical team of expert engineers and scientists assembled near one of the oldest and biggest sandspits in the South Bay. Local cities had sounded the alarm last year when tides overwhelmed the sandspit and left a gaping breach. The…
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In Harvey’s wake, Congress advances legislation speeding Army Corps projects in Texas
WASHINGTON – The U.S. House cleared major water infrastructure legislation Wednesday night that includes provisions expediting U.S. Army Corps projects within declared disaster areas in Texas, Florida, Puerto Rico and other states and territories hit by natural disasters. Houston area lawmakers praised the overwhelming 408-2 House vote, which sends the measure to the Senate. The…
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APA* Policy Guide on Water
Updated version adopted by Chapter Delegate Assembly, April 2, 2016. Updated version ratified by APA Board of Directors, July 15, 2016. Traditionally, the role of planners with respect to water focused on environmental resources, hazard mitigation and flood control. Water service issues, including water quantity and quality, were left to the water utilities. Today, water…
