Gov. Jeff Landry’s push to take control of New Orleans’ flood board has been scaled back and a revised bill keeps the ...

Some recent legislative changes seem to have been motivated by skewed perceptions about the pre-Katrina Orleans Levee Board that we’d like to correct, say the writers, from levees.org. After ...

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The system was born out of the devastation left behind by Hurricane Besty, and then destroyed and redone following Hurricane Katrina.

NEW ORLEANS — The levees, floodwalls and floodgates that protect New Orleans held up against Hurricane Ida's fury, passing their toughest test since the federal government spent billions of ...

But as years go by, the odds of a storm surge impacting the levee system increase. This will become especially true, he says, as coastal erosion brings the Gulf of Mexico closer to New Orleans ...

Languages: English. Levees, floodwalls and floodgates in New Orleans withstood the harsh onslaught of Hurricane Ida after it made landfall Sunday, the Associated Press reported. The success of the ...

As Ida’s storm surge pushed toward New Orleans, the water ran up against an intricate system of levees and flood walls built by the federal government after Katrina, and the system stopped the ...

The new storm system surrounding New Orleans, with its 350 miles of levees, flood walls, gates and pumps, “will withstand the storm surge,” he said. “There’s been tremendous investment in ...

Aug 29 (Reuters) - Shortly after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans in 2005, the city went to work on building a $14.5 billion system of gates, flood walls and levees that would protect it ...