After Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers built a $15 billion levee and surge protection system ...

The system was born out of the devastation left behind by Hurricane Besty, and then destroyed and redone following Hurricane Katrina.

The New Orleans Levee Protection System was designed to protect the city from massive flooding. The levee system was born out ...

What good is a levee if it cannot keep the water out? People in Conway County are trying to solve that problem, because a ...

While there are currently no active storms threatening the United States, hurricane season is just getting started, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers reported that the levee system is the most ...

A levee system that protects about 200,000 residents in Terrebonne and Lafourche parishes from Gulf of Mexico storms reached a milestone today with an agreement that kicks off federal-led ...

In May 1949, 11 inches of rain fell on Fort Worth in nine hours, turning the Trinity River into a 14-block-wide body of water ...

The 1937 flood left behind a convincing argument: It costs much less to invest in a state-of-the-art levee system than it does to rebuild every time the Ohio overcomes its banks. About two decades ...

Credit: Nick Graham Credit: Nick Graham This story looks at why the dam and levee system is facing expensive challenges. The conservancy district maintains and operates the dam and levee system ...

The Burns levee system is a 2.4-mile stretch of earth and rocks buffering the town from a bank of the Silvies. It was originally constructed by property owners along the river, though there aren ...

MEANWHILE, OTHER CREWS WILL BE DRIVING AROUND MONITORING THE CITY’S LEVEE SYSTEM THROUGH THIS EVENT THAT STANDS 40FT HIGH. AND IT’S EXPECTED TO PROTECT INFRASTRUCTURE LIKE EPPLEY AIRFIELD.