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Come Hell and High Water exposes the reasons behind New Orleans' levee failures during Hurricane Katrina and the damage that ...
Corps documents show the mistake of overly optimistic levee strength was detected by its Vicksburg office, which directed ...
Twenty years out from the New Orleans disaster, the city's levee and flood wall system must be raised or the region could ...
A levee watchdog group raises concern after it was unable to find levee maintenance ratings by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers ...
Federal levee design and construction failures allowed the hurricane to trigger one of the nation’s deadliest and costliest disasters. The push by Levees.org comes as Hurricane Idalia takes aim at ...
Two decades after Katrina, New Orleans’ levees sink amid rising seas and federal funding cuts, threatening city’s flood protection.
When Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005, it wasn't just another storm—it was one of the deadliest hurricanes in U.S. history.
Levees will be widened In other areas of the New Orleans region, simply raising levees to original design heights isn't providing 100-year elevations, according to the corps.
WATSONVILLE — As work prepares to begin on the systemwide rebuild of the Pajaro River levee, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers recently conducted an environmental analysis for design refinements ...
The city is looking at every HESCO block and will issue a report on the damage to inform repairs and improvements.
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 documents that will ...
Federal levee design and construction failures allowed the hurricane to trigger one of the nation’s deadliest and costliest disasters.