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Jindal did not specifically blame flooding elsewhere on the levee improvements, but simply said "it absolutely causes a different flow of water." Click to enlarge. "Whenever the corps builds ...
It's the final stretch for a years-long project to improve a key levee near Yuba City. The Tudor flood risk reduction project ...
Once the eroding levee is removed, the river will return to a natural flow through the area. The project ties into a tapestry of similar projects spanning the river corridor from Selah to Union Gap.
"It has been quite an anxious time with the uncertainty in flow rates and heights but [we were] anticipating it overflowing the levee at some stage," she said. "My grandparents weathered the 1956 ...
In Bogota, Tennessee, a local family came up with an ingenious way to protect their home from severe flooding — they built a ...
He said there is no reason to believe a levee on the Yazoo River would fail, but if it did, water would flow over small towns. “More than anything else, save your life and don’t put at risk ...
Now the better plan is to allow the river to return to its natural flows, which would cut the hefty cost of levee maintenance and repair and open more than 1,000 acres of natural habitat along the ...
breaking down a portion of the earthen embankment and allowing tidal waters to flow across 3,400 acres of land for the first time in 100 years, officials said. The tearing down of the levee is ...
It comes as the US Army Corps of Engineers is increasing the flow of water from Lake McClure ... About 14 miles downstream from Lake McClure where a levee broke earlier Thursday, the water flooded ...