Balancing Flood Protection and Personal Safety

A new effort is underway to develop guidelines to help communities make stormwater systems safer.
Balancing Flood Protection and Personal Safety
Three 500 hp pumps at the Magnolia Pump Station will help alleviate flooding along Interstate Highway 10 in central El Paso.

In September 2014, several vehicles were swept into a retention pond when they got caught in a flash flood in El Paso, Texas. The drivers, who all escaped unharmed, were in the wrong place at the wrong time. The street is designed as a channel to guide flash flood water to the...

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