A plan to plant thousands of hardwood trees across 125 acres in St. Charles Parish to make up for those cut down to build a huge hurricane levee project made sense on paper. In practice, the idea did ...

Work is underway on another section of the West Shore Lake Pontchartrain storm risk reduction project as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers awarded two more contracts. Photo courtesy of U.S. Army Corps ...

A gap in the levee underneath the North Cross Valley Expressway lets vehicles pass through and then is closed to prevent flooding when water reaches high elevation. Work on the Brookside Levee ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST PARISH, La. (WGNO) — ...

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In this, the fall of many people’s discontent, it’s become an accepted truth that the wheels of government move slowly, if at all, on things that really matter or to help the disadvantaged. But not ...

Crews work on the sand fill along the centerline of the levee and the protected side channel excavation for a portion of the West Shore Lake Pontchartrain hurricane and storm damage risk reduction ...

A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held Wednesday to mark completion of a $13.2 million project to repair Zoar Levee. The repairs were necessary to halt erosion under the levee, which could have undermined ...

Des Moines city engineers and staff are looking to cut costs on a levee improvement project that's already $35 million over budget. The city began the eight-phase project in 2020, but with increasing ...

DES MOINES, Iowa — Local 5 has more on how city officials are working to keep Des Moines safe through its levee project. To start off, let's clarify what exactly a levee is. A levee is a barrier on ...

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 Alto Baylands ...

Louisiana has been allowed by the Army Corps of Engineers to count $110 million spent on two major coastal restoration projects in recent years as credits towards the state’s $1.12 billion share of ...