Noting that hurricane season was fast approaching, board members bucked the board president and installed an engineer as the ...

High water levels for the Mississippi River in New Orleans spurred increased levee inspections from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, its New Orleans District announced Monday. The river rose above 11 ...

15. The catastrophic failure of the levee walls seals New Orleans' fate. Designed to protect the city from a surge of at least 11.2 feet above sea level, the walls failed with a maximum surge of ...

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Simmering tensions over the role of the police chief at the New Orleans area levee authority burst into the open on Thursday at the agency’s monthly board meeting. Board president Roy Carubba ...

The river has risen to over 11 feet at New Orleans' Carrolton gauge ... It was built as part of construction of the vast levee system along the river following the great flood of 1927, which ...

In a report last year, the agency recommended coastal restoration measures to repair some of the damage done by pipeline construction ... sections of New Orleans' levee system were incomplete ...