The Army Corps' Risk Management Center was set up to make the agency more efficient and better-equipped to prevent dam and ...

High water levels for the Mississippi River in New Orleans spurred increased levee inspections from the U.S. Army Corps of ...

The mandate, said Nicholas Pinter, a professor of applied geoscience at UC Davis who studies California’s levees, amounted to “hydrologic insanity.” “The volume they were initially ...

There were two benefit zones: The Upper Basin was to pay for O&M of the levees and channels upstream of the Middle-Scotts Creek confluence. These levees primarily protect Upper Lake and ...

Bayous and man-made channels drain water from the region. Levees protect suburban neighborhoods, and lakes meant to be sources for drinking water double as places to store water. But these ...

Since then, every generation of settlers to the region has attempted to control the river by building levees, or protective, raised embankments, alongside it. Prior to 1882, Mississippi Delta ...

It was during the hour-long bus ride south to Davis High that Kate Wilson learned she’d been tabbed the starter in Bear River ...