Soil Sensors Help Thousand-Year-Old Levees Protect Residents of the Secchia River Valley
Colin Campbell
In Italy, on January of 2014, one of the Secchia river levees failed, causing millions of dollars in flood damage and two fatalities. Concerned with preventing similar disasters, scientists and geotechnical engineers are using soil sensors to investigate solutions in a project called, INFRASAFE (Intelligent monitoring for safe infrastructures) funded by the Emilia Romagna Region (Italy) […] The post Soil Sensors Help Thousand-Year-Old Levees Protect Residents of the Secchia River Valley appeared