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The time is now to incorporate Nature-based Solutions (NbS) in our drainage improvement projects and city planning. Funding is not only available through FEMA’s Hazard Mitigation Assistance grant program, but NbS is highly encouraged as part of the selection criteria in the BRIC national competition. #BRIC #FMA #NbS #greeninfrastructure #greenTexas #planning

Major General (Retired) Jeffrey Milhorn, Former Deputy Chief of Engineers USACE joins RSA to promote 5 patented large scale civil flood control inventions. RSA seeks industry partners to immediately finance, build & implement these structures. www.rsaprotect.com or contact Rick Adler 909-908-2585. There is no refuting that climate change has led to an increase of flood events across the globe - including coastal, inland waterways, & flash flooding. Consequently, the United States is faced with implementing innovative solutions to prevent loss of life & affected properties. Unfortunately, common practice is to reactively spend billions of dollars annually to remediate the devastating effects left behind these increasingly intense & violent storms. It's time for a proactive shift! Rick Adler, President of RSA & his Team have analyzed, designed and patented five large scale Civil flood control solutions for coastal, inland waterways and flash flooding. The RSA Team will engineer custom solutions for each project based on variable site conditions and on-site supervisory requirements. RSA supplies the manufacturing drawing packages and supervises the factory and on-site production. Others perform the installation, commissioning, and long term operations & maintenance. RSA Five Large Scale Civil Flood Control Inventions Movable Barrier Concrete Flood wall System - https://lnkd.in/gefprc4h Active Weir Wall and Detention Basin Flood Control System - https://lnkd.in/gw8gbnGE, https://lnkd.in/gmNDrwtG,  https://lnkd.in/g-6Qh_qQ  Surface Mounted Concrete Flood wall System for WWTFs - https://lnkd.in/gwtx_Unm Sand/Sediment Harvester – non-invasive dredging system - https://lnkd.in/g6TYNiij Fixed Traffic Arm through telemetry monitoring and control - https://lnkd.in/gtpSnZJh The RSA Team includes P.E.s and PhDs. whose expertise span across Civil, Geotechnical, Structural, Mechanical, Electrical, Controls, Telemetry and Hydrologic and Hydraulic Engineering. RSA Protective Technologies seeks industry partners with solid management to finance, build & implement these solutions. RSA has already entered discussions with the US Army Corps of Engineers and the US Army Engineer Research and Development Center in an effort to design innovative solutions to address the nation’s toughest challenges. RSA Protective Technologies is registered as a small business within SAM.GOV under the following numbers: CAGE is 64P04 and UEI is JX47BBQJCFF3. If you are a federal or international partner and you seek additional information, including capability briefings & demonstrations from RSA Protective Technologies, please contact Major General (Retired) Jeffrey L. Milhorn, P.E. at jmilhorn.cloudbreak@gmail.com. For Equity & Venture Capital Investors, please contact Rick Adler at radler@rsaprotect.com.

Major General (Retired) Jeffrey Milhorn, Former Deputy Chief of Engineers USACE joins RSA to promote 5 patented large scale civil flood control inventions. RSA seeks industry partners to immediately finance, build & implement these structures. www.rsaprotect.com or contact Rick Adler 909-908-2585. There is no refuting that climate change has led to an increase of flood events across the globe - including coastal, inland waterways, & flash flooding. Consequently, the United States is faced with implementing innovative solutions to prevent loss of life & affected properties. Unfortunately, common practice is to reactively spend billions of dollars annually to remediate the devastating effects left behind these increasingly intense & violent storms. It's time for a proactive shift! Rick Adler, President of RSA & his Team have analyzed, designed and patented five large scale Civil flood control solutions for coastal, inland waterways and flash flooding. The RSA Team will engineer custom solutions for each project based on variable site conditions and on-site supervisory requirements. RSA supplies the manufacturing drawing packages and supervises the factory and on-site production. Others perform the installation, commissioning, and long term operations & maintenance. RSA Five Large Scale Civil Flood Control Inventions Movable Barrier Concrete Flood wall System - https://lnkd.in/gefprc4h Active Weir Wall and Detention Basin Flood Control System - https://lnkd.in/gw8gbnGE, https://lnkd.in/gmNDrwtG, https://lnkd.in/g-6Qh_qQ Surface Mounted Concrete Flood wall System for WWTFs - https://lnkd.in/gwtx_Unm Sand/Sediment Harvester – non-invasive dredging system - https://lnkd.in/g6TYNiij Fixed Traffic Arm through telemetry monitoring and control - https://lnkd.in/gtpSnZJh The RSA Team includes P.E.s and PhDs. whose expertise span across Civil, Geotechnical, Structural, Mechanical, Electrical, Controls, Telemetry and Hydrologic and Hydraulic Engineering. RSA Protective Technologies seeks industry partners with solid management to finance, build & implement these solutions. RSA has already entered discussions with the US Army Corps of Engineers and the US Army Engineer Research and Development Center in an effort to design innovative solutions to address the nation’s toughest challenges. RSA Protective Technologies is registered as a small business within SAM.GOV under the following numbers: CAGE is 64P04 and UEI is JX47BBQJCFF3. If you are a federal or international partner and you seek additional information, including capability briefings & demonstrations from RSA Protective Technologies, please contact Major General (Retired) Jeffrey L. Milhorn, P.E. at jmilhorn.cloudbreak@gmail.com. For Equity & Venture Capital Investors, please contact Rick Adler at radler@rsaprotect.com.

Cities around the world have tamed rivers and floodplains by burying them in concrete and making them “disappear”. Recently I was interviewed by The Dallas Morning News. We discussed how my team revealed previously unknown pictures of #floodplain loss in Texas and why it is time for #Texas to think “natural” again to avert the trend. Three takeaways from the interview: - Texas lost an estimated half a million acres of natural floodplain between 1992 and 2019. Out of Texas’ three largest cities, #Austin lost the least in that period, about 2,000 acres, and #Dallas and #Houston lost somewhere in the ballpark of 6,000 acres each. - The rate of floodplain loss in Dallas and Houston has only accelerated in recent years. - Texas needs Nature Based Solutions to flood hazards that are sustainable in the long term. #floods #climateaction #sustainability #urbanplanning #infrastructure The University of Texas at Arlington Civil Engineering Department UT-Arlington

#NbS is the key to restoring the river and flood plain which plays a pivotal role in balancing the ecosystem, specially in climate extremes scenario all over the world

A topic that is very much in the news at the moment has inspired the latest article on our website; The Role of Retaining Walls in Preventing Flooding : A Structural Engineer's Perspective. Read the article here; https://lnkd.in/eqprjzGV

I thought than an article on the importance of retaining walls for flood prevention and water management might be useful in the current climate. I hope that this is of interest, and if so, please feel free to read more about it on our website. https://lnkd.in/eiZT2G-4

SuDS (Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems) are an indispensable, resilient and preventive solution in storm water management. Well-designed SuDS serves the aspects of Water Quality, Water Quantity, Amenity and Biodiversity. SuDS with natural plantings and trees adds to aesthetics of the urban landscape and the built environment for biodiversity, human health and wellbeing, air quality, treatment of running water and urban heat island mitigation. Additionally, applications of nature-based solutions for Flood Mitigation are an indispensable and inveterate approach. Use of innovative green materials adds to the verdure touch of it. Green dams and woody debris dams aptly fit into the scheme of things to serve the fitness of purpose. Systems thinking and systems-based approach to river basin management, delineation of contributory catchments, comprehensive 2D and 3D modelling exercises to ascertain the susceptible extents of flooding in the case of heavy and critical storms is the key to unlock the potentials of the flood alleviation measures. Proposing and constructing earthen dams and dikes, adjusting and providing adequate barrier heights at the critical inundation regions is crucial to flood alleviation and can bring forth a sustainable respite to the flooding problems. With the pressing issues of climate change and eventual increase in rain intensities, nature-positive solutions are fundamental and imperative. Harnessing the civil engineering skill sets and allocation of supportive governmental funds and projects could champion Brobdingnagian Blue - Green solutions for Storm Water Management and flood prevention / control schemes.

Poor engineering design will result in this.

Even though a road is built as an embankment, it is never designed as a water retention structure or an embankment dam. This is a very good example of the interplay between soil mechanics and soil hydraulics; you cannot separate the two, and both are important considerations for any road project.