A series of analyses have helped confirm what engineers have posited for more than a century: that earthen levees built along the river are increasing flood risk for everyone, and especially ...

"Prior to levee building, the river was a wild thing and it spread out between the river bluffs," Knaup said Monday. "Now we've tried to tame it. Mother Nature and Old Man River will fight back." ...

The official flood stage in New Orleans is 17 feet, but a combination of recently elevated earthen levees and floodwalls on both sides of the river in the New Orleans area protect most locations ...

“And right here is where it breached,” said Jonathan Remo, a geography professor at Southern Illinois University, standing on a levee across the river from Mark Twain’s hometown. “The ...

SOME SPECIAL INSPECTIONS ARE GOING ON ALONG THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER LEVEES AS WATER REACHES ITS PEAK LEVEL TODAY, WDSU’S ELIZABETH KUEBEL IS SHOWING US JUST HOW HIGH THAT GAGE IS RIGHT NOW AND WHY ...

Beneath the stacks of plastic designed to prevent flooding from a damaged dam rest aging levees in serious decay. The right mix of storms could wipe them out and flood the valley before the river ...

Workers from Teichert Construction shore up the levee on the Sacramento River where boils were discovered on Tuesday, February 14, 2017 in Verona, Calif. Paul Kitagaki Jr. [email protected] ...

The Army Corps of Engineers has increased its surveillance of the state’s Mississippi River levees as the swollen river continues to rise. Although the river isn’t expected to overrun or ...

The Assistant Secretary of the Army was in Tulsa Wednesday to take a look at the levees along the Arkansas River. The levees were built to protect residents and industry in the area from flooding ...

>> THE BANKS OF THE SACRAMENTO RIVER USUALLY PROVIDE A BIT OF PEACE. A SANCTUARY TO FORGET ABOUT THE OUTSIDE WORLD. BUT WHEN THE RIVER IS A SWOLLEN AS IT IS NOW. VERY LITTLE RELAXATION. >> IT CAN ...

Reclamation district officials in Wilton said Tuesday that it will cost $1.5 million to fill a gaping hole the size of a football field in the Cosumnes River levee, one of 11 trouble spots they ...