None of the flood-control projects had gotten this far up the creek.

A major flood in 1978 led the city to embark on an expensive flood-control project that involved altering many nearby rivers and streams.

This ambitious irrigation and flood-control project, built in the third century b.c., is still in use.

Many of them are in isolated areas where there are federally owned forests or flood-control projects.

But with so many flood-control projects older than 40 years, worries go beyond the unpredictability of nature.

Normally, federal law does not allow suits for damages resulting from the failures of flood-control projects.

After many years of studies, in 1972, a new flood-control project was started.

The debate has turned to a flood-control project designed by the Army Corps of Engineers.

After a 1969 flood that left eight feet of water downtown, voters rejected a bond issue that would have paid for a flood-control project.

Building Problems But hydropower, water supply or flood-control projects can prevent the sand from reaching the beach.