the cost of building a levee to protect a small community far exceeds the economic benefit. Like Pajaro, Hamilton City lives on the edge of a volatile river. Like Pajaro, its residents are largely ...

Only days ago, a levee breach along the river triggered massive flooding in ... the only way to access the gap is through through a small, open area that runs between the north and southbound ...

Twelve miles of levees were built to hold back the Pajaro River — a waterway with Monterey ... catastrophically flooding the small farming town of Pajaro, than along the north bank, where ...

This is the last undammed river in the state of California ... storms are posing a problem for a small agency in charge of maintaining its stretch of levees along the Cosumnes River in Wilton.

The Pajaro River on the border of Monterey and Santa Cruz counties breached a levee late Friday night, flooding the Pajaro River Valley. Across the Central Coast’s Monterey County, more than 8,500 ...

Twelve levees have breached along the Missouri River in three states, as historic flooding continues to inundate small towns and farms in southwestern Iowa. Four of the levee breaches were on Iowa ...

Isleton, California - A town that was built under the level of the Sacramento River got a wake-up call from Mother Nature Wednesday morning when a moderate, but highly noticeable earthquake struck ...

As climate change and development exacerbate the Mississippi River’s environmental problems, many communities will have to ...

Tents are pictured along the Kansas River levee in North Lawrence on Dec. 27 ... is an exceedingly important undertaking, since any small neglect could easily result in damage to property ...

The river poured onto farmland ... With declining rural populations, the report’s authors wrote, small levee districts can’t raise enough money to meet Corps standards.

Residents of Isleton, a small town with 800 residents about 60 miles northeast of Oakland, were struck hardest. Reports for Isleton, which sits below a levee on the Sacramento River, originally ...