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Now two brothers who grew up nearby are undoing all that work. In what experts are calling the biggest levee-busting operation ever in North America, the brothers plan to return the muddy river to its ancient floodplain, coaxing back plants and animals...
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Experts who studied flooding brought on by Hurricane Katrina say New Orleans could be made safer by elevating more homes, building stronger levees and abandoning...
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With the spring flood season fast approaching, the Army Corps of Engineers insists the earthen levees that were overwhelmed by the Mississippi River last summer are...
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AP, New Orleans
Waves crashed high against flood walls Monday and New Orleans’ rebuilt levee system survived its first hurricane in three years, but Gustav exposed weaknesses the...
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AP, Washington
Levees in New Orleans have survived Hurricane Gustav so far, but parts of southern Louisiana remain in grave danger, federal emergency management officials said...
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AP, New Orleans
The goal to raise levees and build large-scale flood defenses around this flood-torn city could be delayed indefinitely because of congressional demands that Louisiana...
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The federal government says 20 to 30 more levees may overflow along the Mississippi River from Burlington, Iowa down to St. Louis.Twenty levees have already overflowed...
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AP, Baton Rouge
Despite a massive effort to repair and upgrade flood defenses since Hurricane Katrina, storm surge could pour over levees in New Orleans if a strong Category 2 or...
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Debris from Hurricane Ike sits along the levee protecting the Sterling Chemicals plant Sept. 18, 2008 in Texas City, Texas. Texas City — home to seven massive facilities run by industry giants like the Dow Chemical Co., BP and Valero — is surrounded.
