Opinion: Gov. Jeff Landry and businessman Shane Guidry are busy in trying to reverse reforms that professionalized and ...

But local efforts were not always effective. They needed a more advanced levee system, and for that they turned to the federal government. In 1879 Congress created the Mississippi River Commission ...

(A nearly 22-mile levee system also protects Texas City and La Marque, including their refineries. It ranges in height from 18 to 23 feet.) Looking ahead A draft proposal of the Corps’ massive ...

The Regional Water Quality Control Plant will supply treated wastewater to the city’s new horizontal levee. Embarcadero Media file photo by Veronica Weber. The newest levee in the Palo ...