Mayor Outlines Flooding and Drainage Plans, Again

Charleston mayor turns State of the City speech into a deep dive on flooding By Abigail Darlington adarlington@postandcourier.com Jan 22, 2019 Updated 5 min ago       Charleston Fire Department helps a stalled car at the intersection of Huger Street and King in...

Mayor Touts State of City Speech

Tonight, I’ll have the honor of speaking with you in my third State of the City Address. Our city has had many successes to celebrate over the past year. We’ve worked with our citizens to create our first citywide transportation plan, and with our regional...

Dutch Dialogues’ Formula for NOLA

Why Doesn’t New Orleans Look More Like Amsterdam? Meet David Waggonner: the urban and environmental architect who wants New Orleans to come to terms with the fact it is a delta city. Lorena O’Neil Sep 2, 2015 A rendering of what New Orleans’s Lafitte...

Site Visit to Holland Stirs Charleston Flooding Mitigation Vision

Netherlands’ approach to flooding might pull Charleston out of ‘negative spiral’ By Robert Behre rbehre@postandcourier.com Oct 12, 2018     +4  Charleston’s delegation to the Netherlands visit a pump station at the Noordwaard Poulder site, one of the Netherlands’...

Low Country Meets Low Country to Study Flooding Mitigation

Netherlands’ approach to flooding might pull Charleston out of ‘negative spiral’ By Robert Behre rbehre@postandcourier.com Oct 12, 2018 Updated Oct 18, 2018 +4  Charleston’s delegation to the Netherlands visit a pump station at the Noordwaard Poulder site, one of the...

Views on the Dutch Approach to Flooding

Lesson from the Netherlands: Charleston should embrace its water Oct 14, 2018 A bike rider makes his way down Gadsden Street in July after thunderstorms dropped up to a half foot of rain in the Charleston area. Brad Nettles/Staff Brad Nettles...