The levee the Army Corps is recommending would stretch roughly 1,370 feet along Cobbs Creek. It would look like an “earthen-berm embankment,” about 15 feet tall. The levee would be able to handle a ...

Central Valley Californians threatened by this year’s massive Sierra snowmelt will receive much-needed state funding as they rush to raise the Corcoran levee, a critical piece of flood control ...

A piece of heavy construction equipment called a backhoe loader dug into a levee in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Wednesday, breaking down a portion of the earthen embankment and allowing tidal ...

Once that work is done, crews will begin building up the height of the levee about four or five feet to match the rest of the embankment. “It will be a couple of weeks to raise the levee repair ...

Adding to the challenge is that water flowing through a gap under Highway 1, between a levee and the highway embankment, is “outside the river channel” and “eroding the levee from the ...

Some Douglas County residents are still finding their footing after the March 16 flooding forced several families to evacuate their homes due to the destruction. The Pleich family was one of many ...

A bulldozer levels dirt along a new levee being built along the Dungeness River on Saturday not far from the mouth of the river near the Dungeness community north of Sequim. The first phase of the ...

One of those potential long-term solutions is a levee, an earthen embankment, that would stretch along the same path as the temporary barriers. But Lt. Col. Jeffrey Beeman of the U.S. Army Corps ...

The proposed $13 million levee would stretch along Cobbs Creek in Eastwick, looking like a 15-foot-tall earthen embankment. It would withstand a 100-year storm without overtopping, benefitting around ...

Sroka wrote that this has led to erosion at the northern end of the levee’s embankment. The project will extend the toe of the embankment by installing a non-woven geotextile, on which will be ...