Between 4:30 and 5 a.m., levees located where the CSX Railroad crosses the northern arm of the Industrial Canal, in the eastern part of Orleans Parish, breach. With metal gates normally used at ...

Infrastructure, such as levees and canals, channel water to our homes and fields, and keep rivers running the course we want them to. Dams, levees, and canals dot the developing world too.

The projects include strengthened seawalls and levees along the lakefront as well as within the Industrial Canal and along the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet. The projects are 80 percent complete ...

Kern water managers’ struck out again on their fourth attempt to write an adequate plan to protect the region’s groundwater, ...

Originally inhabited by the Seminole and Miccosukee tribes, it became a key hub for sugarcane and vegetable production around Lake Okeechobee, thanks to 20th-century canal and levee development.

Smith Canal floodgate:Stockton floodgate first of its kind west of the Mississippi The county says KSN Inc. has maintained regular communication with community members living behind the levee on ...