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YUBA CITY — It's the final stretch for a years-long project to improve a key levee near Yuba City. The Tudor flood risk reduction project is finally wrapping up after more than a decade. It will ...
New research shows that typically, less than 10% of land-building alluvium reaches the Bird’s Foot Delta region, the ...
New research shows that typically, less than 10% of land-building alluvium reaches the Bird’s Foot Delta region, the ...
The Amite River Basin Commission is proposing to preserve this 4,265-acre region of lowland swamp in South Baton Rouge for ...
In May 1949, 11 inches of rain fell on Fort Worth in nine hours, turning the Trinity River into a 14-block-wide body of water ...
During Katrina, the intersection of the Intracoastal Waterway and the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet acted like a giant “V” to funnel storm surge into New Orleans East and St. Bernard Parish.
Today is Friday, May 16, the 136th day of 2025. There are 229 days left in the year. Today in history: On May 16, 1966, the Chinese Communist Party issued the May 16 Notification, a document that ...
U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) announced that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is directing $136.5 million in FY2025 appropriations to Mississippi ...
Writer David Muth asks the Louisiana Legislature to order the governor to proceed with the Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion, "the single most important restoration project in Louisiana history. " ...
Have you ever wondered what really happens when winter’s thick blanket melts away? The transformation is nothing short of dramatic. As snowpack turns to rushing ... Read more The post These Rivers Are ...
During high-water events like we're currently experiencing on the Lower Mississippi, rising river levels flood the batture, the strip of land between the river and the levee. The flooding drives ...