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 US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Sacramento District has awarded Stantec and Kleinfelder an Architect-Engineer Civil Works/Dam Safety/Levee Safety Program Design Services contract with a ...

NEW ORLEANS - The engineers who designed the floodwalls that collapsed during Hurricane Katrina did not fully consider the porousness of the Louisiana soil or make other calculations that would have ...

WEST PITTSTON – Nearly 75 projects in Luzerne County will share almost $11 million in state grant funding announced Tuesday, including $400,000 for the engineering and design of a levee system in West ...

After 18 years in the making, the Three Rivers Levee Improvement Authority (TRLIA) Board of Directors celebrated the completion of its Urban Levee Design Criteria on Tuesday. This project will ...

FORTY FORT — The Luzerne County Flood Protection Authority is halting design work to build a new levee in Exeter and rehabilitate a levee in Duryea in response to the Federal Emergency Management ...

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 ...

This story, headlined "Corps never pursued design doubts," was originally published Dec. 30, 2005. It is being republished for the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina as part of The Times-Picayune's ...