A century-old sand dike that held back the raging Wisconsin River helped protect a rural neighborhood, but state officials said Tuesday they'll renew a push to buy out homeowners and let the lev ...

PLYMOUTH – The town is moving ahead with plans to replenish an eroding section of Plymouth Long Beach ahead of a major dike restoration in the same area by the Army Corps of Engineers.. The ...

Sand that held back flood waters in the Red River Valley and played a role in military training in Duluth is being used for one last good deed -- on the floor of a horse-riding arena in Esko.

MADISON, Wis. — A 100-year-old sand dike that held back the raging Wisconsin River helped protect a rural neighborhood, but state officials said yesterday that they’ll renew a push to ...

That sand, the Army Corps says, ... In 1959, the 875-yard-long sand dike called Sore Thumb was built on Jones Beach Island, extending south into the bay, between Oak and Cedar beaches.

THE Netherlands is deploying an unlikely ally as climate change intensifies the low-lying country's age-old fight against floods: more than 666,000 truckloads of sand to shore up a crucial dike. While ...

Instead of an exposed seawall like Galveston's or a dike, the Dutch built a steel and concrete seawall slightly more than a half-mile long, then hid it under sand dunes. The Dutch seawall cost ...

Years ago, highway officials erected a massive dike here with 2,200 sandbags—each bag was 15 feet long, two feet tall, and five feet wide—and then buried the dike in even more sand in an ...

After 18 years, a $1.5 billion project has officially been completed to repair a sprawling dike around Florida’s Lake Okeechobee that protects thousands of people from potentially catastrophic ...

MADISON, Wis.—A century-old sand dike that held back the raging Wisconsin River helped protect a rural neighborhood, but state officials said Tuesday they’ll renew a push to buy out homeowners ...