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.

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 ...

“When we know there is a weather or heavy rain event coming, we can slow down our take from the river and keep the canal levels below the levee threshold,” King explained. It’s “the quick ...

The flooding from the faulty levee system of the canal after Hurricane Katrina cost scores of lives in the lower 9th Ward. Given this ignoble history, it is frankly shocking that the Army Corps ...

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.

The big picture: The 17-foot-high levee built after Hurricane Katrina ... The parish plans to open a paddle canal in November, according to Michelle Gonzales, director of the parish's ecosystem ...

MARICELA, THANK YOU SO MUCH. THE SACRAMENTO COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS HAS RATIFIED A PROCLAMATION OF EMERGENCY DUE TO UNCONTROLLED LEVEE EROSION EAST OF DILLARD ROAD AND SOUTH OF HIGHWAY 16.