Few people realize that some of the fiercest battles shaping our landscapes are fought not in the open, but along the winding ...

6. In the Industrial Canal, the floodwaters start to erode the earthen levee embankments and cause four sections of the concrete levee "I" walls to bulge outwards. Cracks appear on the concrete ...

At least 700 fellow citizens wouldn’t have died if the levee system and pumping stations had done their jobs properly. Now, on the tenth anniversary of Katrina, a piece of concrete barricade ...

Circling the Ohio River and Pigeon Creek, the combination of over 79,000 feet of earthen levee, 8,000 feet of concrete walls and 20 pumping stations work to shield the city from disaster and clear ...

Wellington, Apr 6 (AP) People used jet boats and tractors to help rescue about 2,000 residents of a New Zealand town after a river burst through a concrete levee, flooding hundreds of homes and ...