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Escambia Officials Take Over Ponds to Reduce the Impact of Flooding
08/26/2021 Escambia Officials Take Over Ponds to Reduce the Impact of Flooding One of the surest ways to reduce urban flooding is to build extra capacity upstream to store the deluge of rainwater that falls during an intense…
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Bristol Creek Homeowner Asks Why Subdivisions Were Built on Flood-Prone Land
01/19/2021 Bristol Creek Homeowner Asks Why Subdivisions Were Built on Flood-Prone Land Bristol Creek resident Spencer Blomquist, whose home has flooded twice, used a recent public meeting hosted by his county commissioner to ask about a…
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Bristol Park Area Residents Ask for Flood Protection, Not Home Buyouts
01/18/2021 Bristol Park Area Residents Ask for Flood Protection, Not Home Buyouts On Jan. 11, a group of homeowners in the Florida panhandle town of Cantonment, near Pensacola, braved the COVID pandemic to gather in an Escambia…
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Pensacola Has Finished 15 of 21 Planned Stormwater Projects Since 2015
01/05/2021 Pensacola Has Finished 15 of 21 Planned Stormwater Projects Since 2015 In 2015, Escambia County’s Stormwater Advisory Team (SWAT) drew up a $417 million list of 228 projects to prevent widespread flooding throughout the…
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Flood Defense Efforts Stall Even as Storms Literally Cut up Perdido Key
11/12/2020 Flood Defense Efforts Stall Even as Storms Literally Cut up Perdido Key For several years, locals have agreed on a plan to restore the beaches and dunes of Perdido Key, a gaunt barrier island on the Gulf Coast that’s home…
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Escambia Family Hopes They Can Finally Rebuild After Home’s Sixth Flood Insurance Payout
11/07/2020 Escambia Family Hopes They Can Finally Rebuild After Home’s Sixth Flood Insurance Payout In 2014, historic rainfall flooded the first floor of Doug and Wendy Underhill’s home on a barrier island near Pensacola, Fla. It would be the fifth…
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Utility Authority, Escambia  Leaders Reduce Flood Risk With Sewage Fix
10/27/2020 Utility Authority, Escambia  Leaders Reduce Flood Risk With Sewage Fix In the Florida panhandle, a local utility and a county have joined forces to reduce the risk of flooding and contamination in a small, low-income…
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Years After Jail Explosion, Area Near Pensacola Still Needs Flood Protection
10/14/2020 Years After Jail Explosion, Area Near Pensacola Still Needs Flood Protection Like most tragedies, this one came as a total surprise. It started in the basement laundry of the Escambia County jail, preceded for hours by the…
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Lake Charlene Flooded Again After HOA Blocked Federal Help
10/12/2020 Lake Charlene Flooded Again After HOA Blocked Federal Help Kenneth Owen, 81, a retired Navy pilot, lives in a lakefront home in Pensacola close to places he depends on – the Navy hospital, exchange and…
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What Does Spirit Airlines' Departure Mean for Florida?
10/06/2020 What Does Spirit Airlines' Departure Mean for Florida? In February 2020, one Florida business made headlines when they decided to pack their bags and fly out of town. Spirit Airlines, headquartered in…
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Escambia County Nearly Doubles Miami-Dade's Repeat Flood Insurance Payouts
10/02/2020 Escambia County Nearly Doubles Miami-Dade's Repeat Flood Insurance Payouts Escambia County sits at the northwest corner of Florida, near the Alabama state line. It has roughly one-tenth of the population of Miami-Dade…
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Hurricane Sally Hits Pensacola Hard, Reveals Weaknesses
09/23/2020 Hurricane Sally Hits Pensacola Hard, Reveals Weaknesses As Hurricane Sally churned off the Gulf Coast about midday on Sept. 15, Pensacola Mayor Grover C. Robinson IV and Police Chief Tommi Lyter were…
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Is Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport Ready for Flooding?
09/21/2020 Is Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport Ready for Flooding? In 2019, on one of the busiest travel days of the year, flooding shut down the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, and forced the…
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Escambia County Soaks Up Stormwater With Pervious Pavement
09/17/2020 Escambia County Soaks Up Stormwater With Pervious Pavement Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on FloodTrends.org. Flood Trends has since merged with Flood Defenders to form Flood Defenders News.…
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Jacksonville Confronts Its Flood Risk
09/16/2020 Jacksonville Confronts Its Flood Risk Stunned by unexpected, historic flooding that swamped Jacksonville three years ago, the northeast Florida city is taking steps to address its flood…
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