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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sroka wrote that this has led to erosion at the northern end of the levee’s embankment. The project will extend the toe of the embankment by installing a non-woven geotextile, on which will be ...

NEW-ORLEANS, Nov. 27. To the Casual observer, who has had no knowledge of Louisiana as it was before the war, the historical NewOrleans levee gives no evidence of the lack of prosperity and the ...

Adding to the challenge is that water flowing through a gap under Highway 1, between a levee and the highway embankment, is “outside the river channel” and “eroding the levee from the ...