The infamous 1937 flood of the Ohio River in Louisville prompted city officials to design and construct floodwalls and levees ...

A prior version of the bill would have scrapped an independent committee that puts forward prospective board members. The new ...

The Army Corps controls the design and operational procedures of flood reduction, so it doesn’t matter whether the governor selects the levee board members or if a panel picks candidates – or even if ...

The Luzerne County Flood Protection Authority is halting design work to build a new levee in Exeter and rehabilitate a levee ...

A Washington, D.C.-based consulting firm continues to assist the City of Williamsport on its recertification and pursuit of ...

The Burns levee system is a 2.4-mile stretch of earth and rocks buffering the town from a bank of the Silvies. It was originally constructed by property owners along the river, though there aren ...

The Delta faces a funding crisis to repair and maintain an aging network of 1,100 miles of levees. These earthen berms, mostly on private land, could rupture and endanger half a million people and ...

A homemade levee system protected a home in Ridgely, Tennessee, preventing water from seeping onto their property. A family in western Tennessee was ready for the recent floodwaters that submerged ...

With less than a month until the start of hurricane season, Louisiana emergency officials gathered Tuesday in Lake Charles to emphasize the importance of preparedness.

“The levee system it held. The design of it by the engineers. We had a 13-inch rain back in April, the lake came up, the levee held,” Futrell said. “The overflow system and the constant flow ...

The Bonnet Carre Spillway has been opened more than a dozen times since it was constructed nearly 100 years ago, but the protection it offers New Orleans’ levee system comes at a cost ...

With the onslaught of rain that Arkansas saw earlier this month, and more expected in the coming days, some in Conway County have been claiming that their levee system isn’t prepared.