Mitigating embankment failures

April 17, 2023
Dimitrios Zekkos, professor at the University of California at Berkeley, recently discusses the ASCE report “Highway 1 Rat Creek Embankment Failure."
Dimitrios Zekkos, professor at the University of California at Berkeley, recently published, along with Timothy Stark, a report called “Highway 1 Rat Creek Embankment Failure” for ASCE about the embankment failure in Northern California. In this video, Zekkos dives into this new publication along with general embankment information and control efforts. 
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Katie Johns

Katie Johns, editor-in-chief of Stormwater Solutions, graduated from the University of Missouri in 2016 with a Bachelor of Journalism and a Bachelor of Arts in Spanish. Johns joined the Stormwater Solutions team in September 2019. Johns also helps plan the annual StormCon conference and co-hosts the Talking Under Water podcast. Prior to entering the B2B industry, she worked as a newspaper reporter and editor in Sarasota, Florida, and a magazine assistant editor in the Chicago suburbs. She can be reached at [email protected].

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A sloped streambank gives way to a broad floodplain reducing erosion and flood risk to existing sewer infrastructure.
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The slope being cleared and prepared for construction