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In July, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) awarded Coatesville $621,360 in Flood Mitigation Assistance grant money to design and engineer long-term resilience solutions to reduce the potential for flooding within the municipality; the only city in Chester County.

Scientists in Brazil have combined models that predict urban expansion and land-use changes with hydrodynamic models to create a methodology capable of supplying geographical information that identifies flood-prone areas vulnerable to heavy rainfall.

The Corps recently completed a seven-year effort to develop an updated, standardized hydraulic model for the Upper Mississippi River System.

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