A levee system that protects about 200,000 residents in Terrebonne and Lafourche parishes from Gulf of Mexico storms reached a milestone today with an agreement that kicks off federal-led construction ...

WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. — A United States Department of Commerce and Economic Development Administration sign can be seen in front of the Hepburn Pump System on Hepburn Street in Williamsport. The city ...

Huntington’s floodwall and levee system needs repairs that would cost about 250 times the Stormwater Utility’s annual budget.

NEW ORLEANS – Emergency preparedness officials in Louisiana know it's only a matter of time before a hurricane or other severe storm brews in the gulf. "We've had 27 hurricanes hit the coast of ...

More than $130 million from the federal government will fix the Tulsa levee system. That levee system protects 65,000 acres of property and more than 10,000 people. The county said if the levee failed ...

The levee system along the Columbia River in Multnomah County could be in for an overhaul under a local bond measure in the upcoming primary. Measure 26-243 asks voters to invest up to $150 million to ...

Across the U.S., levees are getting older while weather is getting more extreme. Many were never designed for the enormous ...

The area being studied, north of the Mississippi River and west of the Bonnet Carre Spillway, is highly vulnerable to flooding from Lakes Pontchartrain and Maurepas, according to a corps news release.

The present-day Wyoming Valley levee system was more than 70 years in the making, with initial construction begun in 1938 after the Valley experienced the worst flooding to date two years earlier.