The US Army Corps of Engineers has launched construction on a 1,500-foot-wide underwater levee in the Mississippi River to prevent saltwater from pushing up the river amid record-low river levels ...

“The toe of the wedge is at the sill, ... Contractor Weeks Marine began work Oct. 11 on the emergency underwater levee to prevent the wedge from the Gulf of Mexico from . . .

A dredging company began construction on Tuesday of a 1,500-foot-wide underwater levee designed to block a wedge of Gulf of Mexico saltwater from reaching public and industrial water supply intakes ...

In 2011, 27 years after its completion, the Sun reached the toe of the levee and caused 800 feet of erosion. "I think 2011 was a test," said Sandy Mares, administrator of the district.

Officials declared a local emergency Wednesday afternoon in San Joaquin County over a potential levee failure. Reclamation District 2040 officials found slumping, a form of erosion, along the Old ...

The Honorable Michael L. Connor, assistant secretary of the Army for Civil Works, Design Agreement Amendment, Tulsa - West Tulsa Levee System, levees, levees failing, levees deteriorating ...

Flood fighters race to plug 360-foot levee breach along Pajaro River as next storm roars closer It’s too late to save the nearby farmworker town. ‘We didn’t make it.’ ...

Years-long levee project near Yuba City nears completion 02:23. YUBA CITY — It's the final stretch for a years-long project to improve a key levee near Yuba City.