Are we ever ready for disasters? How resilient could we ever be after a calamitous event? Hurricane Matthew is the latest natural calamity to batter the US soil this year, and despite the infrastructural asset management plans geared towards the protection of life, limb, and property, there are still casualties. The flooding triggered by […]
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West Virginia Needs Stormwater Infrastructure Funding Now
More than two months after a flash flood killed at least 24 people and devastated more or less 1,200 homes, West Virginia is now seeing the harrowing effects of cutting back budgets on infrastructure and the slow efforts on rehabilitation and replacement of decaying public utilities. Flooding has become common in the mountainous counties of […]