The weakest spot left along the swollen Mississippi River may be the Pin Oak levee, a barrier so tenuous that soil slides down its slope. Only National Guard soldiers and firefighters in life ...

crews performed emergency repairs on some 400 linear ft of mainline levee that ... and rebuilding the river-side slope.” Despite sand boils and slides throughout the Mississippi Rivers ...

The dramatic, late-night demolition of a levee sent water pouring onto thousands of acres of Missouri farmland Tuesday, easing the Mississippi River floodwaters ... on the slope of the levee ...

A marine construction company wants to use 280,545 cubic yards of rip rap to help stabilize the Mississippi River levee on its property ... bank and using it for slope repairs.

The US Army Corps of Engineers has launched construction on a 1,500-foot-wide underwater levee in the Mississippi River to prevent saltwater from pushing up the river amid record-low river levels ...

High water levels for the Mississippi River in New Orleans spurred increased levee inspections from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, its New Orleans District announced Monday, Feb. 24. The river ...

GULFPORT, Ill. -- The rising Mississippi River broke through a levee Tuesday, forcing authorities to rescue about a half-dozen people by helicopter, boat and four-wheeler as floodwaters moved ...

QUINCY — Federal legislation expected to be introduced this week could significantly impact levee districts along the Upper Mississippi River. Rep. Mary Miller sponsors the Upper Mississippi ...