In the years after Hurricane Katrina, over 350 miles of levees, flood walls, gates and pumps came to encircle greater New Orleans. Experts say that is not enough. In the years after Hurricane ...

NEW ORLEANS – Fifteen years ago this week, a Coast Guard helicopter pulled Webster Rainy from his niece's rooftop in the Lower 9th Ward as floodwaters swallowed his neighbors in the wake of ...

Water is flowing through a break in a flood wall at New Orleans' northern edge. Al Naomi, a project manager with the New Orleans District Corps of Engineers, talks about the damage. This is ...

Ten years ago, the levees and flood walls meant to protect New Orleans failed against the force of Hurricane Katrina. Since the catastrophe, roughly $14 billion have been spent to upgrade the city ...

The Army Corps says it’s finished fixing corroded flood pumps at New Orleans' outfall canals — a $760 million system built after Katrina that began failing just five years in.

New Orleans was particularly hit hard due to flooding. The hurricane’s 19-foot storm surge broke through the city’s flood walls and the levees. The failure of New Orleans’s flood-protection ...

Concrete flood walls that were supposed to protect New Orleans were not overwhelmed by high waters during Hurricane Katrina as federal officials have claimed, but ruptured because they were ...

The city’s flood walls were exposed as ugly monuments to shoddy engineering. Once they cracked open, a monstrous spell engulfed New Orleans. Brutal displacement permeated every district.

NEW ORLEANS, La. -- The $14 billion upgrade to New Orleans’ system of levees to fortify the city is sinking, according to engineering experts. After investing an amount of money that is five ...

All areas east of the breach flood to about 12 feet above sea ... The catastrophic failure of the levee walls seals New Orleans' fate. Designed to protect the city from a surge of at least 11.2 ...

Leaders of the Army Corps of Engineers say the city's flood walls were in excellent ... have surfaced about Corps-built structures around New Orleans. Strock said that the project that resulted ...