Flood management Archives

CAL MATTERS: Fierce floods or wild waves? How San Diego is preparing for a winter of extreme weather under El Niño.

August 1, 2026

As a “super El Niño” season gains steam, San Diego contends with aging stormwater systems and century-old dams. By Deborah...

USGS: Morphodynamics of dune-based coastal flood mitigation under sea level rise

USGS

Climate change Research article Science

July 29, 2026

By the USGS Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center Natural and engineered sand dunes serve as barriers to protect against...

EDWARD RING: Dredging the Delta can prevent a catastrophe

Edward Ring

Commentary Ecosystems

July 23, 2026

By Edward Ring, Director of Water and Energy Policy at the California Policy Center It’s January 2027, and for the...

SJV WATER: Will the “super” El Niño fill Tulare Lake? A Fresno engineer thinks it’s almost certain

SJV Water

Hydrology

July 22, 2026

By Lois Henry, SJV Water El Niño is coming. Of that, scientists seem sure as ocean temperatures continue to heat...

DRI: A new tool can help protect communities from flooding and optimize reservoir management during rain-on-snow events

Desert Research Institute

Hydrology

June 16, 2026

DRI’s Snowpack Runoff Decision Support Tool monitors runoff potential in mountain snowpacks to give water managers and emergency planners unprecedented...

NOAA: El Niño and high tide flooding, a possible double whammy for some coastal communities in 2026

NOAA Research

Hydrology

May 18, 2026

NOAA’s National Weather Service is predicting El Niño is likely to emerge by July 2026 and continue through the winter,...

EOS: How wildfires worsen flood risk

American Geophysical Union

Wildfires and watersheds

April 30, 2026

by Nathaniel Scharping, EOS A new approach to analyzing watersheds shows how storms occurring after a wildfire can have higher...

NOTEBOOK FEATURE: Turning flood risk into water supply: Inside DWR’s San Joaquin Basin Studies

Maven

Notebook News and Features Planning and management

April 9, 2026

The San Joaquin Basin faces complex water management challenges that demand a unified approach. Decades of groundwater overuse, increasing flood...

DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE: Accounting for soil saturation enhances atmospheric river flood warnings

Desert Research Institute

Hydrology

March 1, 2026

Early warnings for atmospheric river-induced flooding are greatly improved by accounting for the impact of saturated soils. From the Desert...

THE CONVERSATION: West Coast levee failures show growing risks from America’s aging flood defenses

The Conversation

Planning and management

January 5, 2026

By Farshid Vahedifard, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tufts University In recent weeks, powerful atmospheric river storms have swept...