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The bodies of 65-year-old Ethelyn Joiner and 71 Audrey Rostkowski, both of Oxford, were recovered Monday, police said in a news release. In Henrico County, Virginia, a man was found dead Sunday ...
“This was a storm-related death,” Capt. John Lipcsak, a spokesperson for the fire department, told USA TODAY. 'Catastrophic, life-threatening flooding' predicted in Western North Carolina
The Southeast is grappling with widespread devastation after Helene made landfall Thursday as the strongest hurricane on record to slam into Florida’s Big Bend region and tore through multiple ...
Hodges Village Dam, a United States Army Corps of Engineers flood control project on the French River (Massachusetts) in Oxford, Massachusetts was built in 1959 as a response to the 1936 floods which took lives and caused tremendous property damage in the Thames River basin of Connecticut. The western side of the French River is open to hunting ...
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Oxford Basin as we know it today was built in 1959 during the creation of the Marina Del Rey small-boat harbor “on the site of an old municipal dump, to prevent flooding in nearby communities.” [10] [16] (“Several of the streets and properties in the area surrounding Oxford Basin are near or below the high-tide level in the marina.”) [17]
A water retention pond will be placed on the site of the old Fuddruckers restaurant to control flooding. And the bad news? The $12 million project won’t start until the beginning of 2025 and won ...
In 1937, such flooding had devastating consequences, destroying over 1,000 homes, and causing millions of dollars in damage. Today, the Upper Thames River Conservation Authority is mainly a not-for-profit agency which monitors flora and fauna welfare in the area and gives tours to local kids on school field trips. As of 2023, the current ...