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, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It has been 20 years since New Orleans’ faulty levee system failed during Hurricane Katrina, causing a flood that claimed almost 1 ...

Rushford’s levee system didn’t fail in 2007. It was overwhelmed. Seventeen inches of rain spread across a day formed a rushing wall of water that barreled through Rush Creek and rose over parts of the ...

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 ...

WATSONVILLE — A state lawmaker has unveiled legislation designed to speed up the construction effort that will bring much-needed flood protection improvements to the Pajaro Valley. In the name of ...

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 ...

Recently, in a letter in this publication, writers Paul Kemp and Ivor van Heerden stated the pre-Hurricane Katrina levee boards gave the Army Corps of Engineers a 40-year pass on the “never quite ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Rock Island District, activated its Emergency Operations Center (EOC) on March 13, to provide supplemental pumping capacity for the Muscatine Island Levee ...

A group of around 20 volunteers planted vegetation to protect a man-made coral system in Golden Meadow to fight nature with ...

It has been 20 years since New Orleans’ faulty levee system failed during Hurricane Katrina, causing a flood that claimed almost 2,000 lives and inflicted more than $150 billion in economic damage.