Flooding

Johnson County has plans to fund more than $35.3 million in improvements to local roadways and stormwater systems in 2020. More than half of roadway projects directly support improvements in the Shawnee Mission area. County funding for the projects comes...

The Roeland Park city council on Monday approved a watershed agreement with Johnson County as part of the county’s new stormwater management program. Working together is the county’s approach with the updated program: watershed organizations are created across city boundaries...

Johnson County is trying a new approach to stormwater management and flooding mitigation: The establishment of Watershed Organizations, agreements between cities across the county to collaborate on stormwater improvement efforts. The new approach seeks to resolve watershed, flooding and stormwater...

Another round of heavy rains forecast for this week has again prompted warnings about potential flooding in the area, highlighting a persistent issue that has affected northeast Johnson County in recent years. But as cities and the county look...

With soils already close to saturation points and as much as six inches of rain expected in the coming days, the National Weather Service in Kansas City/Pleasant Hill has issued a flash flood watch that includes Johnson County through...

For residents along Indian Creek in the Nall Hills neighborhood, the beginning of spring rainy season this year will bring a sense of unease. Will this be a normal year, or will it bring a repeat of 2017, when...

The Mission Hills city council this week approved spending $75,000 on an engineering contract with Water Resource Solutions for 2D and 3D modeling of the Rock Creek/Brush Creek confluence as the city looks to address the potential of overflow...

Engineers and Prairie Village Public Works officials on Tuesday revealed their proposed fix to the growing flooding problems on Mission Road near the Village Shops. The plan calls for construction crews to essentially eliminate the dip in the road that...