It's hard to imagine where New Orleans would be today without the spillway. But despite all the good it has done, many in ...

The Army Corps controls the design and operational procedures of flood reduction, so it doesn’t matter whether the governor selects the levee board members or if a panel picks candidates – or even if ...

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

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 ...

The Luzerne County Flood Protection Authority is halting design work to build a new levee in Exeter and rehabilitate a levee ...

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 ...

A homemade levee system protected a home in Ridgely, Tennessee, preventing water from seeping onto their property. A family in western Tennessee was ready for the recent floodwaters that submerged ...

During the devastating floods in western Tennessee, the Humphrey family's farmhouse in Bogota remarkably remained dry, thanks to a custom-built levee system. Reinforced by brothers Tucker and ...

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