23 days ago by Brian Thomas

Evan Lehman in Scientific American via ClimateWire: Levees are as varied in the United States as the people they guard. They're shaped like snakes, rings and spurs that can be tough, flimsy or a century old. No one knows for sure where all of these earthen walls are, who built them or what type of r ...

30 days ago by admin

In a press conference, the grassroots group Levees.Org released records obtained under the Freedom of Information Act revealing that just weeks after levees failed in New Orleans, the people responsible for making the levees, the US Army Corps of Engineers directed and later paid an engineering grou ...

35 days ago by Michael Chevy Castranova

Cedar Rapids/Iowa City Gazette weekly column, “On Topic,” from 01-01-12 To a newcomer, it appears Cedar Rapids has gone from debating a once-popular television program to arguing about a popular brand of toothpaste. Both discussions, as it turns out, are about levees. So I was intrigued with this pa ...

57 days ago by Brian Thomas

Mark Schleifstein in the New Orleans Times-Picayune: The raising of levees along the west bank of the Mississippi River by as much as 2 1/2 feet will not put residents of St. Bernard Parish and the east bank of New Orleans at heightened risk from storm surge in a 100-year hurricane, a team of Army C ...

68 days ago by Steve Thompson / Reporter

Here's another passage you won't see in today's release of the plan to bring Dallas' levees back up to 100-year-flood standard. It was in the June draft, right there on Pg 13, but now it's gone. "Based on USACE standards, the potential systemwide deficiencies identified in the PI Report apply to bot ...

68 days ago by Steve Thompson / Reporter

The potential environmental impacts of restoring Dallas' Trinity River levees to 100-year flood protection are minor - and far outweighed by the necessity of fixing them, according to an environmental assessment of the project just released. That conclusion comes as little surprise. But the report, ...

69 days ago by Steve Thompson / Reporter

The potential environmental impacts of restoring Dallas' Trinity River levees to 100-year flood protection are minor - and far outweighed by the necessity of fixing them, according to an environmental assessment of the project just released. That conclusion comes as little surprise. But the report, ...

81 days ago by chandrashekhar

The Monsoon winds arrived late in the Indian peninsula last year. This was in no way something very unusual. Even last year, the Monsoon rains had arrived late in the month of July. But, what turned out to be very unusual this year, were the areas where rains hit hardest. Usually the rains crash on ...

85 days ago by Missouri News Horizon

St. Louis Rep. Sylvester Taylor talks about what the House Committee on Disaster Recovery doesn’t include.

95 days ago by Drake Toulouse

How Louisiana and California are linked, in mediocrity... I know I said I’d be back on Monday, so I’m late, my bad… been doing some thinking this week about the website, reading the news, hanging out, taking a break…etc…and the one thing I can’t seem to get out of my head is this… The number of peop ...