Louisiana residents and parish officials are lobbying the Army Corps of Engineers to include Ascension and St. James parishes in a massive hurricane protection project. The Advocate reports the Army Corps met this past week with local interests as part …
Ten years after work started on the Sioux Falls, S.D., levee system, the city’s getting about $10 million from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The public works director says the project was a partnership between the city and corps. …
Unusually heavy summer rainfalls in Tennessee have given the agencies involved in flood control and emergency management a chance to show that they have learned to cooperate after the disastrous missteps of 2010. That’s the year heavy flooding of the …
The Army Corps of Engineers is spending $1.3 million to raise about 4,000 feet of earthen levee in easternmost New Orleans, La., that has subsided so low it wouldn’t be able to withstand a storm surge caused by a so-called …
State and federal emergency officials will survey hundreds of Outer Banks, N.C., residents to find out if they would ever evacuate for a hurricane so they can estimate how crowded roads will be when people are told to leave ahead …
The Army Corps of Engineers has awarded a $23.8 million contract for installation of equipment related to the Harahan pump-to-river flood control project. The work is part of the Southeast Louisiana Urban Flood Damage Risk Reduction Project. Army Corps officials …
The Army Corps of Engineers will meet today with residents about a study that looks at ways to reduce the risks from hurricane and storm surge in St. James and St. John the Baptist parishes. Residents will be able to …
The Mississippi River flooding of 2011 caused $2.8 billion in damage and tested the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ system of levees, reservoirs and floodways like never before, exposing vulnerabilities that need attention, a report released Monday said. The report …
U.S. Rep. Kristi Noem has introduced a bill that would require the Army Corps of Engineers to notify the public whenever expected high runoff could cause flooding along the Missouri River. South Dakota’s lone member of the U.S. House says …
The Army Corps of Engineers is accepting bids for a project to rebuild a flood-damaged causeway that connects the city of Pierre, S.D., to LaFromboise Island on the Missouri River. The corps says the causeway will be restored to how …