Bob Gregalunas from Houston Engineering provided additional explanation on proposed modifications to the Clarkson levee ...

There were two benefit zones: The Upper Basin was to pay for O&M of the levees and channels upstream of the Middle-Scotts Creek confluence. These levees primarily protect Upper Lake and ...

Between 4:30 and 5 a.m., levees located where the CSX Railroad crosses the northern arm of the Industrial Canal, in the eastern part of Orleans Parish, breach. With metal gates normally used at ...

Since then, every generation of settlers to the region has attempted to control the river by building levees, or protective, raised embankments, alongside it. Prior to 1882, Mississippi Delta ...