According to the Department of Water Resources, the $9.7 million is intended to help “improve flood protection on the Yuba River for up to a 200-year flood event, which will reduce the risks of ...

SEQUIM — A 1960s-era levee on the Dungeness River is in the process of being replaced. Representatives with the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe is constructing a 5,000-foot long Rivers Edge setback levee on ...

Earl Landry walks around a 5-foot-high flood wall in Erath, La., Friday, June 16, 2017. The wall was built around Erath middle school and high school after Hurricane Rita flooded ...

1 / 12 Show Caption + Hide Caption – A ceremonial ribbon stands at the entrance to the Middlesboro Flood Protection Project, ready to be cut to mark completion of a $7.9 million levee channel ...

Flood plains will grow by 45%That was one of the findings by the Interagency Levee Policy Review Committee, which studied the challenges of the nation's levee system following Hurricane Katrina ...

The Army Corps of Engineers has unveiled three proposals for a flood levee on the Mall that would require permanent foundations on both sides of 17th Street and a ...

People living behind levees on floodplains may not be as immune to flood damage as they think, according to results of a study led by the University of California, Davis. Levees often prevent costly ...

FORTY FORT – The Luzerne County Flood Protection Authority unanimously approved a policy that regulates but does not ban the use of electric bicycles on the path atop the Wyoming Valley Levee ...

'Negative Benefit' of Levee Protection. The scientists modeled four flood conditions -- 2-year, 5-year, 100-year and 400-year flood levels -- with and without levees. Levee failures were also modeled.

The Mississippi River approaches a levee at left in New Orleans, La., Thursday, July 11, 2019, ahead of Tropical Storm Barry. (TNS) -Legislation to give levee districts along the upper Mississippi ...

Checking on Wilkes-Barre's flood protection Firefighters and DPW crews checked out the city's flood walls on Monday morning. To stream WNEP on your phone, you need the WNEP app.