Salt Lake County, Utah’s levee systems are in unacceptable shape, according to a review by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Officials with the Corps’ Sacramento District announced Friday that they found several problems in levees along the 12-mile Surplus …
Officials in Frankenmuth, Mich. say a levee designed to protect areas of the city along the Cass River from flooding may need a $1.5 million upgrade. MLive.com reported the Federal Emergency Management Agency says the city needs to modify the …
The Army Corps of Engineers is spending $1.3 million to raise about 4,000 feet of earthen levee in easternmost New Orleans that has subsided so low it wouldn’t be able to withstand a storm surge caused by a so-called 100-year …
The refusal of city and county officials to fund the improvement of a levee near an unincorporated section of Hutchinson has prompted concerns among residents. The city voted last year to improve and recertify levees along the Arkansas River and …
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is seeking dismissal of a lawsuit brought on behalf of more than 140 southeast Missouri farmers over damage caused by last year’s intentional breach of the Birds Point levee at the height of spring …
Congressman John Garamendi, D-Walnut Grove, Calif., on Tuesday introduced the Flood Insurance for Farmers Act of 2012 to help offset the cost of flood insurance that will likely be required in many of the state’s farmlands as aging levee systems …
Officials say the levee near Percival, Iowa, that failed in last summer’s Missouri River flooding will undergo temporary repairs but will remain vulnerable to severe flooding next year. KETV-TV reported damage to the levee is about $120 million but only …
The only earthen levee along the troublesome Blanchard River in the northwest Ohio city of Findlay is no longer recognized as viable for flood control. The Courier newspaper reports the Federal Emergency Management Agency has decertified the levee. Findlay flood …
A Missouri River levee failed near Percival in southwest Iowa on June 30, the National Weather Service said. The breach, about a mile northwest of the town in Fremont County, had grown to about 200-yards-wide by 9 a.m., Iowa Homeland …
Cracks have formed in a Cocodrie, La., levee, one of the newest to be constructed as part of the Morganza-to-the-Gulf hurricane-protection system. Levee officials say the cracks aren’t serious enough to cause a failure in the levee, but the district …
