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

Two flood protection districts oversee the system ... of residents of LaPlace and other communities outside New Orleans' levee system. That project is not projected to be completed until 2024.

NEW ORLEANS, La. -- The $14 billion upgrade ... The Corps maintains the current system of levees and flood walls in place will hold up if a major storm were to hit in the near future.

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 ...

Two flood protection districts oversee the system ... of residents of LaPlace and other communities outside New Orleans' levee system. That project is not projected to be completed until 2024.

The Army Corps of Engineers is embarking on studies of potential improvements to the east bank and West Bank hurricane levee systems because portions of the post-Katrina levee system are likely to ...

In the eastern part of New Orleans, which suffered the greatest impact, levees were overtopped by ... in a city devastated by a storm and whose flood protection is not as strong as it should ...

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Two flood protection districts oversee the system ... of residents of LaPlace and other communities outside New Orleans' levee system. That project is not projected to be completed until 2024.

NEW ORLEANS — The levees, floodwalls and floodgates that ... But strengthening the flood protection system in New Orleans couldn’t spare some neighboring communities from Ida’s destructive ...

But strengthening the flood protection system in New Orleans couldn’t spare some neighboring communities from Ida’s destructive storm surge. Many residents of LaPlace, a western suburb where work only ...