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Our Ten Years series explores a decade of flooding and efforts to mitigate it.

Engineering study is next step for SSPEED Center’s proposed hurricane barrier

The centerpiece of the project is a surge barrier system across the Bolivar Roads, the gaping mouth where Galveston Bay opens to the Gulf of Mexico.

(Bloomberg Opinion) -- In coastal Texas and many other places, walled cities are making a comeback. It’s quite a turnabout, as the efficacy of defensive walls had declined precipitously since the age of the long bow. Barbarians still menace, of course.

Rice University builds flood alert system that could help save lives Tags:  Rice University builds flood alert system HOUSTON – Engineers at Rice University have developed a new flood alert system that can help predict where it could flood and help people safely evacuate before the water gets too high. “What we do is we take the rain that’s falling, we measure that really, really accurately and we use that to predict the inundation levels,” said Dr. Phil Bedient, with Rice University’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Bedient, is the director of the SPPEED Center,...