New Orleans Repeats Deadly Levee Blunders

In four separate contracts, up to $331 million in levee reconstruction projects were awarded last week by the USACE to rebuild levees in some of the hardest hit areas from Hurricane Katrina, including St. Bernard […]

Nearly 3,000 dams in Texas will be exempt from inspection, including 216 that are rated as high hazard. This is thanks to a Texas State law passed earlier this year meant to lessen the burden […]

Despite some sand boils found along the Mississippi River, Gen. Martin Dempsey, the Army’s chief of staff, said “the levee system has done its job, up and down this river.” Mike Stack, the chief of […]