“There is always the risk of floods exceeding the design levels of a levee, resulting in flooding in the leveed area (the areas located behind the levee),” Paul said. The USACE said the levees ...

Norfolk city leaders and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) held a roundtable on Tuesday providing updates on the ...

The levee failures put thousands of acres of farmland under water and at times threatened the water well fields for the city of Washington. “We had two incidents. In 2008, we had the biggest ...

At the same time, Congress authorized the Army Corps of Engineers to participate in levee building on the Mississippi if matters of navigation were involved. Although the Commission was supposed ...

Vicksburg District has entered into a Project Partnership Agreement (PPA) with the City of Pearl, Mississippi as of March 19, as part of the Mississippi Environmental Infrastructure Program (Section ...

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 ...