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 ...
PALMVIEW, Texas (Border Report) — As federally-authorized construction crews toiled away Thursday to repair four giant breaches in the earthen levees caused by border wall construction in South Texas, ...
Huntington’s floodwall and levee system needs repairs that would cost about 250 times the Stormwater Utility’s annual budget.
It has been 20 years since New Orleans’ faulty levee system failed during Hurricane Katrina, causing a flood that claimed almost 1,400 lives and inflicted more than $150 billion in economic damage.
Louisville's flood protection system, built in response to the devastating 1937 flood, includes a 29-mile floodwall and levee system. The system is designed to withstand water levels equivalent to the ...
EVANSVILLE, Ind. (WFIE) - In Evansville, the Levee Authority has been hard at work, making sure the river city doesn’t fall victim to it’s name. They’re utilizing the levee system to help. On Thursday ...
Across the U.S., levees are getting older while weather is getting more extreme. Many were never designed for the enormous ...
MILLER COUNTY, Ark. (KSLA) - Representatives with the United States Corps of Engineers and the Miller County Office of Emergency Management spent Monday morning (April 7) checking the levee system on ...
TULSA, Okla. — State lawmakers said repairs will be coming to Tulsa's levee system in the upcoming months. "A very big step was taken that no one noticed, and that was the signing of all of these ...
U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers have jointly awarded a $167 million contract for the construction of eight miles of a levee wall system along the U.S. Border ...
Arkansas legislators should change current law to allow the Arkansas Natural Resources Commission to have some level of oversight in the state's patchwork levee system, a senator told the state's new ...