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Louisiana climatologist warns of flood threats from high Mississippi River levels
Louisiana could see "generational" flood threats as a result of excessive rain expected in the U.S., causing runoff to move ...
The Advocate2dOpinion
Editorial: Levee authorities should remain wholly focused on Job #1, flood protection
It's not clear what Gov. Jeff Landry's end game is as he tries to make drastic changes to the flood protection authority that ...
Arkansans ask for levee work, despite Corps of Engineers funding cuts
Levee project funding and protections from levee slides were the chief concerns of Arkansans on Tuesday at the Corps of ...
NOLA.com29d
Trains once ferried across the river from Baton Rouge to Anchorage. But where was Anchorage?
The Anchorage railroad landing on the levee along La. 415, the River Road, in West Baton Rouge Parish, to which trains were once ferried across the Mississippi River to continue their journeys ...
WAFB22d
Officials still working to determine cause of death of driver found in Mississippi River
According to the sheriff’s office, Gage’s body was recovered from the Mississippi River ... found submerged in the river in the 7000 block of Highway 1 behind the levee on Saturday, March ...
Louisiana Illuminator7dOpinion
Gov. Landry’s levee board power moves give off a ‘Musky’ reek
So far this month, four members resigned from a New Orleans-area levee board, most of them citing the reversal of reforms ...
Scientific American18d
The Nation’s Chief Engineers Turn to Nature to Improve Flood Protection
The Gulf’s famous marshes help to protect human communities from storm surges, but more than a century of levees and dams on the Mississippi River had deprived the marshes of 70 percent of the ...