A levee is a raised bank formed on the banks of a river, in the lower course. Due to the drop in energy caused by friction, the biggest, most coarse material will be dumped close to the river banks.

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 ...

The infrastructure is about 70 years old, with 26 miles of concrete flood walls and earthen levees and a network of 16 pump stations. The pumps send water accumulating inside the city out to the Ohio ...

Iowa Agriculture Week is wrapping up, Friday’s theme was resilience. To bring this theme to life, the focus was on levee repairs after the past floods in 2011 and 2019.

So far this month, four members resigned from a New Orleans-area levee board, most of them citing the reversal of reforms ...

A fourth board member at the New Orleans area levee authority resigned on Thursday, escalating the fallout over controversial ...

Pumps set up at the levee pumped out about 4,000 gallons of water per day, but due to a breach on the Obion River, caused the water to flow back into Rives. Rice reports that the department is ...

Some say key flood improvement votes could be affected. But one reformer says the levees will be just fine. It was 19 years ago that Ruthie Frierson led a group of more than 100 -- called ...