A protection committee to avert breaches in any embankment in flood-hit Assam will be set up with Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal issuing directions to Chief Secretary V K Pipersenia in this regard.

Lack of proper maintenance puts the town protection embankment in bad shape, posing a threat to life and properties in the coastal areas of the port city. Experts said displacement of earth in the ...

New erosion has been reported in the Padma Bridge project area, putting the main protection embankment at Naowdoba in Shariatpur's Jajira end at risk. The nearly two-kilometre-long embankment was ...

Abdullah Al Mamun, executive engineer of the Bagerhat Water Development Board, said initial work has begun to prevent erosion along roughly 1,000 metres of the most vulnerable sections Around 700 ...

Water Development Board (WDB) has appointed 10 contractors on emergency basis to protect the embankment as it has developed breaches at 33 points along its 40 km stretch. It was alleged that ...

Products from geotechnical and erosion control specialists, Maccaferri are being used to construct new flood defence measures in the Cornish village of Boscastle. Over 7000 sq metres of Maccaferri ...