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.

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 ...

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 ...

A study of how to dramatically improve flood protection provided by the New Orleans area's east bank hurricane levee system might finally move forward thanks to an agreement on how to finance ...

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 ...

All areas east of the breach flood to about 12 feet above sea ... The catastrophic failure of the levee walls seals New Orleans' fate. Designed to protect the city from a surge of at least 11.2 ...

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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.

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 ...