LOUIS — Complaints about regional flood risks and longstanding levee controversies ... largest such boat on the river. The meeting was one in a series along the Mississippi.

The US Army Corps of Engineers has launched construction on a 1,500-foot-wide underwater levee in the Mississippi River to prevent ... sea level is rising along the coasts. These two impacts ...

NEW ORLEANS — Ducks have taken roost on a sandy strip along the ... looked out from the river levee. More than a third of the rain in the United States ends up in the Mississippi River system.

Imprisoned within artificial levees ... the first small step in a long quest to tame the Mississippi. Other levees were built along the river through the decades until they merged into a single ...

The Mississippi ... that may develop along the levee system because of the elevated water levels," the Corps said in a statement. A spillway opening can be triggered to keep river flow below ...

the city of New Orleans is at risk of flooding but would be protected by levees and floodwalls. Phase 1 was last activated Feb. 24-March 13. Flooding concerns continue along the Mississippi River ...

The river rose above 11 feet at the Carrollton gauge, prompting a response from the Army Corps to work with local levee officials and begin precautionary patrols of levees along the Mississippi ...

In an often-excerpted passage from his memoir, Life on the Mississippi ... it also has a specific human history—the river ...

Phase 1 restricts heavy vehicle traffic on levees and disallows ... conditions west of the Mississippi River, but heavier than normal rains east of the river and along the Ohio Valley, a major ...

Officials in Vicksburg and Warren County continue to prepare for flooding from the Mississippi River. According to the National ... County.The USACE Vicksburg District has increased inspections along ...

The Bonnet Carré Spillway at St. Charles Parish allows floodwaters from the Mississippi River ... a specific human history—the river runs between artificial levees, or provides conveyance ...

NEW ORLEANS — Ducks have taken roost on a sandy strip along the Mississippi River — a bank that's typically underwater. "We have this nice little beach here that Black-bellied whistling ducks ...