To perform reliably, flood-control channels must behave in a stable, predictable manner. This ensures that a known flow capacity will be available for a planned flood event. In most cases, the design ...

The entire 51-mile L.A. River flood control channel was built in 1938 in response to the destruction caused by a major flood. It was designed to serve three main purposes: keep flood water in the ...

IDS Engineering Group Dec. 9 presented three viable open channel alternatives for the ongoing Poor Farm Ditch project that ...

But floods can also alter the geometry of the channel by eroding the bed and banks of a river, damaging flood-control structures and potentially leading to embankment breaches. Upstream erosion ...

Citing governance concerns and financial uncertainty, Valley Water is reconsidering its participation in a regional effort to improve flood control around the San Francisquito Creek in Palo Alto, ...

Imagine the Los Angeles River before its metamorphosis into a concrete flood control channel, and Mark Twain’s quip about falling into a California river and coming out “all dusty” might ...