Cincinnati, Ohio and northern Covington, Kentucky are neighboring cities that border the Ohio River. The threat of landslides and flooding are shared by the two urban centers due to underlying geologic and hydrologic factors. Landslides and flooding are interconnected and are often caused by similar ...
The article offers information on the flooding of the Ohio River at the Cache River Valley in south Illinois in the later part of April ad early part of May in 2011. It mentions that the flood is caused by the early snowmelt and heavy rains at the eastern part of Ohio Basin and it ...
Johnstown in Licking County will receive $500,000 in H2Ohio funding to support the installation of 2,200 linear feet of 18-inch relief sewer to solve sewage backups, overflows, and residential flooding problems along Mink Street and Jersey Street with connection to the village's wastewater trea...
The 1-in-1000-year precipitation event in late June 2016 over West Virginia caused tremendous flooding damage. Like the 2012 mid-Atlantic derecho that blacked out much of the DC area, similar events can be traced to small, mid-tropospheric perturbations (MPs) embedded in the large-scale ridge...
After severe flooding in 1913 the Miami Conservancy District was established (1915) and an extensive system of levees and retarding basins was built in the river valley.The Editors of Encyclopaedia BritannicaThis article was most recently revised and updated by Amy Tikkanen....
Households' perception of flood risk and health impact of exposure to flooding in flood-prone informal settlements in the coastal city of Mombasa Purpose Mombasa City in Kenya is one of the most vulnerable towns to flood risk due to its low-lying coastal location. Those at the highest risk in...
The river is still very high for this found flip-flop arrangement. I am also continuing to enjoy using these lost sandals as a stand-in for our kind. So much can be implied through the idea of a foot print. We had another flooding moment in late April which again changed the character...
The Ohio is prone to spring flooding, and extensive flood control and protection devices have been constructed along the river and its tributaries. These devices also improve the river's navigability; a 9-ft (2.7-m) channel is maintained along its entire length. A system of modern locks and...
The afternoon was fading when I encountered another reroute. I wondered if this one really was due to flooding, as the stretch ran right along the river. Water or roadwork, I never found out, but I’d neglected to top off the Suzuki V-Strom’s tank in Jeffersonville and the blinking ...
killing 48 people and destroying more than 50,000 homes. The flooding had significant impacts on agriculture and infrastructure but also halted all railroad traffic across the Midwest. In addition, 10 commercial airports flooded, and some places along the Mississippi River remained flooded for six ...