by admin | Apr 2, 2018 | News
Welcome Dutch fixes for Charleston’s flooding woes ( FILE – This February 1953 file photo shows an aerial view of a windmill pump elevated above the floodwaters in the coastal village of Oude Tonge in The Netherlands. It took the collapse of dikes,...
by admin | Mar 29, 2018 | News
Charleston gets a visit from the real flood control experts, but can the Dutch really help here? By Robert Behre rbehre@postandcourier.com Mar 29, 2018 Updated 40 min ag The Dutch are to flood control what the Germans are to automotive engineering or the French are...
by admin | Mar 9, 2018 | News
Coastal floods to be nearly as common as high tides in South Carolina within 80 years, NOAA says By Bo Petersen bopete@postandcourier.com Mar 9, 2018 Updated 5 hrs ago (0) Brooks Harrison of Charleston looked out the door of Eastside Soul Food where he works as tidal...
by admin | Mar 7, 2018 | News
Another nor’easter slams Eastern Seaboard CNN Facts first: Climate change is real 01:43 Story highlights The kind of floods we’ve only seen during storms might in the future be regular events More frequent flooding likely due to sea level rise caused by...
by admin | Mar 5, 2018 | News
As the Charleston peninsula grew over the centuries, developers filled in marshes and creek beds to build neighborhoods and roads. Not surprisingly, those places now flood after heavy rain and sometimes on sunny days as well. The same thing happened much more recently...
by admin | Mar 3, 2018 | News
Please Don’t Flush the Toilet. It’s Raining. By WINNIE HUMARCH 2, 2018 Continue reading the main story Share This Page Willis Elkins, a program manager for the Newtown Creek Alliance, at the creek in Queens. Every year billions of gallons of waste water are discharged...
