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The Army Corps of Engineers is proposing to reduce flooding in southwestern Louisiana with a $1.8 billion plan that would include voluntarily raising or buying homes in flood-prone areas, building ...
If the Morganza Floodway is not opened to funnel 300,000 cubic feet per second of water from the Mississippi River into the Atchafalaya River basin, the additional water could cause ...
Climate Change Will Redraw Louisiana's Flood Risk Maps Published Aug 18, 2016 at 3:47 PM EDT Updated Aug 23, 2016 at 4:15 PM EDT A submerged vehicle is seen in Ascension Parish, Louisiana.
After the 1983 flood, authorities thought up many storm water-control strategies, including the Comite diversion and building levees along the Amite near Denham Springs. Harrell doesn't expect the ...
The levees, floodwalls and floodgates that protect New Orleans held up against Hurricane Ida's fury, passing their toughest test since an upgraded system was put in place after Hurricane Katrina.
Isaac flooding prompts dam release, levee breach, as Louisiana faces power outages By Fox News Published August 30, 2012 7:34am EDT | Updated July 14, 2017 10:48am EDT ...
Others, particularly organizations and individuals in heavily flood-prone areas that already have many levees, favor the construction of more levees. Legislation allowing homeowners to delay the ...
NEW ORLEANS — The levees, floodwalls and floodgates that protect New Orleans held up against Hurricane Ida's fury, passing their toughest test since the federal government spent billions of ...
The levees, floodwalls and floodgates that protect New Orleans held up against Hurricane Ida’s fury, but costly upgrades to the city's flood protection system couldn't spare some neighboring ...
BUNCHE'S BEND, La. -- Water from the swollen Mississippi River poured over a century-old levee Thursday, flooding 12,000 acres of corn and soybeans despite ...
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Flood Authority East levee board in some disarray after ... - MSNThe effort to reform Louisiana levee boards was no small task. It required a big petition drive to convince the legislature to go along with the constitutional change.’ ...
There is a lot of water in southern Louisiana right now. The region’s been lashed with rain for the past week---the water has inundated freeways, surged past levees, and left about 40,000 homes ...
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