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

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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.

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 ...

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 ...

Turner Publishing announces a special anniversary edition of Author Sandy Rosenthal's award-winning recounting of the 2005 hurricane and subsequent levee failures, Words Whispered in Water: Why Levees ...

The New Orleans Levee Protection System was designed to protect the city from massive flooding. The levee system was born out ...

1. Katrina makes landfall in Louisiana at 6:10 a.m., but the flooding of residential areas in greater New Orleans actually begins an hour and a half earlier. Between 4:30 and 5 a.m., levees ...

After Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers built a $15 billion levee and surge protection system ...