The levee the Army Corps is recommending would stretch roughly 1,370 feet along Cobbs Creek. It would look like an “earthen-berm embankment,” about 15 feet tall. The levee would be able to handle a ...

A piece of heavy construction equipment called a backhoe loader dug into a levee in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Wednesday, breaking down a portion of the earthen embankment and allowing tidal ...

Central Valley Californians threatened by this year’s massive Sierra snowmelt will receive much-needed state funding as they rush to raise the Corcoran levee, a critical piece of flood control ...

Once that work is done, crews will begin building up the height of the levee about four or five feet to match the rest of the embankment. “It will be a couple of weeks to raise the levee repair ...

Some Douglas County residents are still finding their footing after the March 16 flooding forced several families to evacuate their homes due to the destruction. The Pleich family was one of many ...

One of those potential long-term solutions is a levee, an earthen embankment, that would stretch along the same path as the temporary barriers. But Lt. Col. Jeffrey Beeman of the U.S. Army Corps ...

According to the Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA), a levee is "a man-made structure, usually an earthen embankment, designed and constructed in accordance with sound engineering ...

A bulldozer levels dirt along a new levee being built along the Dungeness River on Saturday not far from the mouth of the river near the Dungeness community north of Sequim. The first phase of the ...

When FEMA determined that the Foster City levee system did not meet minimum ... retaining walls as well as more than 5,000 linear ft of embankment construction using earthen fill and lightweight ...

The proposed $13 million levee would stretch along Cobbs Creek in Eastwick, looking like a 15-foot-tall earthen embankment. It would withstand a 100-year storm without overtopping, benefitting around ...