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"The Farm" is a new master plan community on the east end of Ventura, California. It consists in a new townhouse development located in Saticoy, an unincorporated community in a rare, rural setting among fields of flowers and citrus orchards. The development extends between South Saticoy Ave. and Blackburn Road, and from Telegraph Road to Los Altos Street. Due to the new construction of the development, paved roads and urbanization of the area, a new drainage system was required to collect and control the waters during rains and flood events. The primary project challenge was finding a technically sound solution able to stand the water velocities into the channel preventing soils from been eroded, able to withstand potential differential settlements and trying to maintain a natural aesthetic look.

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The Campeira Dam is responsible for supplying water to the city of Cristalândia (TO) for most of the year. A few years ago, after intense periods of rainfall, the dam's spillway, which was 7 metres wide, was not sufficient to release all the excess water from the reservoir, causing it to overflow and consequently the erosion of the shoulders and the dam's structure to be compromised.

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On October 18, 2015, a storm caused extensive flash flooding in Grapevine Canyon and Scotty’s Castle area, in northern Death Valley National Park. This area averages only four inches of rain per year, but over three inches or rain hail had fallen in a five hour period. Floodwaters ran at 3,000 cubic feet per second, cutting deep channels, destroying roads, and depositing mud up to four feet deep in and around buildings at Scotty's Castle Area. Over 20 power poles and a mile of concrete fence posts were washed away. The flood ripped up sections of the road to Scotty's Castle. Debris piled up around buildings and covered the parking ad picnic areas. The 2015 flood at Scotty's Castle was exceptional. Nothing like it has occurred in the hundredyear history of the site. With the challenge of working in a remote area impacting costs, the park sustained $50 million in damages.

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