Within a few years slaves are put to work clearing land ... A breach in the levee on the east bank of the Mississippi 18 miles above New Orleans does an "immense amount of damage," they write ...

closes out the speaks for the Hurricane and Storm Damage Risk Reduction System completion event at the IHNC-Lake Borgne Surge Barrier in New Orleans, Friday, May 27, 2022. The levee authority now ...

Jay Lapeyre, Jr., the New Orleans civic and business leader who as nominating committee chairperson single-handedly reshaped the region's two biggest levee authority boards following post ...

The authorization does not include ... Morganza to the Gulf levee system around Houma. “By authorizing the St. Tammany ...

Louisiana has long relied on a vast levee system to rein in the Mississippi ... Maurepas Swamp just to the west of New Orleans holds Louisiana's second largest contiguous forest, a beloved state ...

(WVUE) - Motorists taking the I-10 or I-55 in the LaPlace area might catch a glimpse of a $3.8 billion levee under construction. The West Shore Lake Pontchartrain Project -- an 18½-mile system of ...

(AP) — Louisiana has long relied on a vast levee system to rein in the Mississippi ... Maurepas Swamp just to the west of New Orleans holds Louisiana’s second largest contiguous forest ...