Flood protection upgrade planned
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A far reaching consultation into plans to upgrade flood protection across the country is to be unveiled.
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The Federal Emergency Management Agency has changed its policy and will provide some reimbursement for homeowners who spent their own money to elevate hurricane-damaged houses above flood level.
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By Nia-Malika Henderson, The Baltimore Sun  Sep. 13--An Annapolis alderman has introduced legislation that would require that adequate fire, police, water and road support be in place before major new developments move forward.   Alderman David H.
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Building inspectors planned to go door to door Tuesday to assess damage from the flood caused by a break in a century-old irrigation canal, as homeowners face uncertainty over who will help them pay for repairs.
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By Brian McDearmon, Columbus Ledger-Enquirer, Ga.  Jun. 22--With more people come more showers, more loads of laundry, more  lawns to water.
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A report on the Boscastle flood says many damaged buildings can be rebuilt and a one-in-400 chance of a similar flood.
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A novel plan to stop up a deadly upwelling of mud has the potential for added disaster, experts say.
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Twelve-foot-high earthen berms stretching 100 miles along the Rio Grande in South Texas were built decades ago to protect the region's irrigated farms and citrus groves from floods. But now a four-county region known as the Valley, with a growing population of 1.3 million, risks flooding again because of levee erosion.
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By The Bradenton Herald, Fla.  Jun. 20--Sarasota Manatee Roofing and Sheet Metal Contractors Association is planning a hurricane preparedness seminar noon to 1 p.m. Saturday at the Fruitville Branch of the Sarasota Public Library at 100 Coburn Road.
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Flood-hit communities in England and Wales are warned to prepare for the threat of further heavy rain.
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By Carl Mario Nudi, The Bradenton Herald, Fla.  Dec. 17--PALMETTO -- Property owners will pay double what they pay now for the city to keep their neighborhood from flooding, if the city commission adopts a new fee schedule at a meeting Monday.
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On the eve of Governor Schwarzenegger's first  anniversary call-to-action, state and federal officials today announced  100-year flood protection for Sacramento's  Pocket and Meadowview neighborhoods.
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By Tom Wilemon, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Feb. 9--BILOXI -- Mayor A.J. Holloway said he plans to ask the Biloxi City Council to adopt new elevation requirements recommended by FEMA so the city can keep receiving money from the federal agency.
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Louisiana residents on Saturday approved an amendment to the state constitution to overhaul flood and hurricane protection efforts in the region still struggling to rebuild from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005.
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By Mahalia Asanaenyi, Omaha World-Herald, Neb.  Dec. 9--The City of Gretna has signed on to a controversial proposal to build up to 29 dams to control storm water runoff and flooding in the Omaha metropolitan area.
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Federal emergency officials claim New Orlean's levee system is ready for another major hurricane.
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A federal plan to buy thousands of flood-prone homes on Mississippi's hurricane-battered coast is shaping up to be far more modest than many residents had feared.