PALMVIEW, Texas (Border Report) — As federally-authorized construction crews toiled away Thursday to repair four giant breaches in the earthen levees caused by border wall construction in South Texas, ...
TULSA, Okla. — State lawmakers said repairs will be coming to Tulsa's levee system in the upcoming months. "A very big step was taken that no one noticed, and that was the signing of all of these ...
A Chinook helicopter drops sandbags into a breach along the London Avenue canal in New Orleans to close a levee breach after Hurricane Katrina in August 2005. After the storm, the Army Corps of ...
Federal budget cuts will stop the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers from conducting regular inspections of New Orleans’ levees this year and next — a break in oversight that comes 20 years after protection ...
Louisville's flood protection system, built in response to the devastating 1937 flood, includes a 29-mile floodwall and levee system. The system is designed to withstand water levels equivalent to the ...
It has been 20 years since New Orleans’ faulty levee system failed during Hurricane Katrina, causing a flood that claimed almost 2,000 lives and inflicted more than $150 billion in economic damage.