The infamous 1937 flood of the Ohio River in Louisville prompted city officials to design and construct floodwalls and levees ...

A Washington, D.C.-based consulting firm continues to assist the City of Williamsport on its recertification and pursuit of ...

Former Wood River Levee District official Jamie Butkovich risks probation revocation after failing to pay over $26,000 in ...

With the Mississippi River flood now receding, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers cautions residents to stay off levee roads, or else emergency responders may have to come to their rescue. Vidalia ...

An ambitious project to restore a rapidly vanishing stretch of Louisiana coast that was devastated by the 2010 Gulf oil spill ...

“The levee system it held. The design of it by the engineers. We had a 13-inch rain back in April, the lake came up, the levee held,” Futrell said. “The overflow system and the constant flow ...

Colin Rowan, planning director for the Urban Flood Safety and Water Quality District in Portland, told Oregon Public Broadcasting that the kind of levee system Burns has had can be found in many ...

Although the National Weather Prediction Service classifies the swell as “major flooding,” it’s well below the height of the levee system designed to protect Southeast Louisiana from ...