How to harness stormwater and the concerning 100-year flood assessment
There’s a new type of water concern for our area. We’re usually talking about too little water, but do we now have too much? Flooding is a real worry following this winter’s atmospheric rivers, which dropped inches of rain and feet of snow. In this edition of Eyewitness Newsmakers with Marc Brown, Brett Sanders, professor of civil and environmental engineering at UC Irvine, laid out a worrying scenario. He and his team mapped a 100-year flood scenario for our region. They discovered our network of flood control channels may not be up to the task, which could mean water may spill over the channel banks or banks could collapse, sending water into areas where millions of people live.