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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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07/02/2021
Escambia County Commissioner Steven Barry Offers Pond Fix to Flood Defenders
After Escambia County Flood Defenders Darlyn Butler and her brother Skip Butler got on the microphone at a town hall, their commissioner said he can…
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01/20/2021
Flood Victims Ask Escambia County Officials for Help
Escambia County residents, many of whom have experienced more than one 100-year flood, gathered at a town hall on Jan. 11 hosted by Commissioner…
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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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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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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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01/05/2021
Cantonment Resident Recovering From Second 100-Year Flood
Spencer Blomquist lives in Cantonment, a suburb north of Pensacola.
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12/01/2020
How Much Do Storms Like Hurricane Sally Impact Property Values?
As Hurricane Sally approached Escambia County, 139,055 households needed to prepare for the worst. But even before storm surge and flooding drowned…
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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…
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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…
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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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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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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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09/29/2020
Florida Counties Try to Lessen Flood Intensity With Street Alterations
Escambia County knows exactly how flooding can devastate a community. Still reeling from Hurricane Sally, the county faces many problems as they…
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09/25/2020
Hurricane Sally's Historic Rain, Storm Surge Flood Escambia (PHOTOS)
Escambia County's hurricane and flood risk became clear after Hurricane Sally dumped more than 2 feet of rain and caused nearly $30 million in…
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