levee News

North Dakota Town’s Levee Project Won’t Help Protect Some Homes

A $4 million flood protection project in Bismarck, North Dakota, set for next year will affect nearly two dozen properties that won’t be protected by the levee that’s being built. The Burleigh County Water Resource District’s project will damage driveways, …

Louisiana Floodwall to be Built on Levee Top

The Army Corps of Engineers has awarded a contract to build a floodwall on top of the existing Mississippi River levee in Plaquemines Parish, La., from Augusta to Oakville. The project is designed to reduce the risk of riverine flooding …

Feral Hogs Uproot Louisiana Crops and Levees

Across Louisiana, human beings aren’t the only ones who live to eat. Feral hogs are proving to be stiff competition, as they snack on sugar cane in Lafourche and St. Mary parishes and devour the rice fields of Acadia Parish. …

Mayor Says ATV Riders Damaging Levee in Kentucky

An eastern Kentucky mayor says ATV riders are cutting ruts into a levee and possibly putting a city in danger of flooding. Middlesboro Mayor Bill Kelley says the use of four-wheelers on the levee that keeps Bennett Fork out of …

California Practices for Flooding as South is Inundated

Emergency workers in nearly half of California counties will be practicing for a catastrophic flood this week – a drill given added urgency by the once-in-a-generation flooding in the Mississippi River delta 2,300 miles to the east. The reason for …