Future engineers need a greater understanding of past failures — and how to avoid repeating them — a Louisiana-based nonprofit said to mark Tuesday’s 18th anniversary of the deadly, catastrophic levee ...

WATSONVILLE — As work prepares to begin on the systemwide rebuild of the Pajaro River levee, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers recently conducted an environmental analysis for design refinements for ...

The US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Sacramento District has awarded Stantec and Kleinfelder an Architect-Engineer Civil Works/Dam Safety/Levee Safety Program Design Services contract with a ...

NEW ORLEANS - The engineers who designed the floodwalls that collapsed during Hurricane Katrina did not fully consider the porousness of the Louisiana soil or make other calculations that would have ...

Flood fighters weren't sure what caused a breach in a floodwall near Fargo's Oak Grove Lutheran High School early Sunday that caused water to pour into the campus's high school and middle school ...

After 18 years in the making, the Three Rivers Levee Improvement Authority (TRLIA) Board of Directors celebrated the completion of its Urban Levee Design Criteria on Tuesday. This project will ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ more than decade long effort to shore up the ring levee system around the City of Marysville will be sufficient to meet federal standards and avoid large increases in ...

NEW ORLEANS -- Within a space of 15 hours on Aug. 29, three massive, concrete floodwalls in separate parts of the city suddenly fractured and burst under the weight of surging waters from Hurricane ...

This story, headlined "Corps never pursued design doubts," was originally published Dec. 30, 2005. It is being republished for the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina as part of The Times-Picayune's ...

The Bush administration said yesterday that the cost of rebuilding New Orleans's levees to federal standards has nearly tripled to $10 billion and that there may not be enough money to fully protect ...