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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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Florida Panhandle Cities Break Records for High-Tide Flood Days
07/21/2021 Florida Panhandle Cities Break Records for High-Tide Flood Days Three cities in the Florida Panhandle saw more high-tide flood days in 2020 than any year on record, according to a new report from the National…
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Flood Victims Ask Escambia County Officials for Help
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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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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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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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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Florida Counties Try to Lessen Flood Intensity With Street Alterations
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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Hurricane Sally's Historic Rain, Storm Surge Flood Escambia (PHOTOS)
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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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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