High water levels for the Mississippi River in New Orleans spurred increased levee inspections from the U.S. Army Corps of ...

The mandate, said Nicholas Pinter, a professor of applied geoscience at UC Davis who studies California’s levees, amounted to “hydrologic insanity.” “The volume they were initially ...

Bayous and man-made channels drain water from the region. Levees protect suburban neighborhoods, and lakes meant to be sources for drinking water double as places to store water. But these ...

Infrastructure, such as levees and canals, channel water to our homes and fields, and keep rivers running the course we want them to. Dams, levees, and canals dot the developing world too.

Between 4:30 and 5 a.m., levees located where the CSX Railroad crosses the northern arm of the Industrial Canal, in the eastern part of Orleans Parish, breach. With metal gates normally used at ...

There were two benefit zones: The Upper Basin was to pay for O&M of the levees and channels upstream of the Middle-Scotts Creek confluence. These levees primarily protect Upper Lake and ...

It was during the hour-long bus ride south to Davis High that Kate Wilson learned she’d been tabbed the starter in Bear River ...

Since then, every generation of settlers to the region has attempted to control the river by building levees, or protective, raised embankments, alongside it. Prior to 1882, Mississippi Delta ...