As the town faces a combined $90 million or more in spending needed to rebuild, improve and extend the dike and levee system ...

Palo Alto plans to build a a 1,650-foot underground pipeline (in blue) from the Regional Water Quality Control Plant to a horizontal levee (in green) at the Palo Alto Baylands. Map by Jamey Padojino.

Officials say volunteer efforts there minimized damage during the 2011 and 2019 floods, but they need some cash to build another levee. Farmers there are also preparing for the next flood.

First, President Donald Trump’s order to release water from two California dams raised expert concerns about flooding. Then ...

The city is building the levee both to accommodate FEMA and to relieve downtown property owners of the burden of flood insurance coverage. Joliet officials have contended that FEMA has imposed a ...

Those include enhancing what already exists by raising the height and extending the width of the dike, at a cost of $25 million, and building a new 13-foot-high levee, at a cost of $65 million ...