Future engineers need a greater understanding of past failures — and how to avoid repeating them — a Louisiana-based nonprofit said to mark Tuesday’s 18th anniversary of the deadly, catastrophic levee ...
WATSONVILLE — As work prepares to begin on the systemwide rebuild of the Pajaro River levee, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers recently conducted an environmental analysis for design refinements for ...
The most common reason levees fail is overtopping, when water from a river, stream or lake behind the levee flows over the ...
Future engineers need a greater understanding of past failures — and how to avoid repeating them — a Louisiana-based nonprofit said to mark Tuesday’s 18th anniversary of the deadly, catastrophic levee ...
Flood fighters weren't sure what caused a breach in a floodwall near Fargo's Oak Grove Lutheran High School early Sunday that caused water to pour into the campus's high school and middle school ...
NEW ORLEANS -- Within a space of 15 hours on Aug. 29, three massive, concrete floodwalls in separate parts of the city suddenly fractured and burst under the weight of surging waters from Hurricane ...
A engineering contract to design a levee to protect the Foxwood Estates subdivision in northwest LaPlace was awarded to Shread-Kuyrkendall & Associates by the St. John the Baptist Parish Council on ...