Army engineers release levee risk list
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One hundred twenty-seven levees around the country are at risk of failing, according to a list to be released Thursday by the Army Corps of Engineers.
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The St. Francis Dam bursts, killing over 500 people in one of the century's worst civil engineering disasters. Compiled by Tony Long.
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The city&#039;s levee system was routinely underfunded and therefore inadequate to protect against hurricanes, according to an independent report released Monday.
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FERNLEY, Nev., Jan. 5 -- A ruptured levee sent a frigid "wall of water" from a rain-swollen canal into this high desert town Saturday, flooding hundreds of homes and forcing the rescue of dozens of people by helicopter and boat.
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General Dynamics of Falls Church has received the first task order under a new Army contract to furnish engineering and support services for a system that enables commanders to share information about battlefield conditions.
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The US Army is looking into why up to 19 reservists with a supply platoon in Iraq refused to complete a mission. Relatives of the soldiers claim that the troops felt the job was too dangerous and their vehicles were unsafe for the mission.
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The Army Corps of Engineers says it has finished installing instruments for measuring the stability of an embankment that separates Lake Audubon from Lake Sakakawea along the Missouri River north of here.
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A federal judge threw out a key class-action lawsuit Wednesday against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers over flooding from a levee breach after Hurricane Katrina.
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To: STATE EDITORS  Contact: Tim Dugan of The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New England District, +1-978-318-8264   CONCORD, Mass., Feb. 2 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The U.S.
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Large parts of New Orleans are still at risk of floods nearly  two years after Katrina, a US Army report says.
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The Army Corps of Engineers is rethinking the way it assesses hurricane risk.
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By Matt Weiser, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Dec. 19--A new network of high-tech weather sensors is making the streams, tributaries and dams of the American River the country's most closely monitored water system.
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By Diane Mastrull, The Philadelphia Inquirer  Sep. 24--If the region has a prayer of controlling flooding, communities and the developers who build in them must embrace the new technologies of storm-water management.   Experts have made that point repeatedly in recent years.
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An army needs water to operate, but it's a pain to tote the stuff around. So Darpa is looking at ways to pull it out of thin air. By Noah Shachtman.
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The levee system that was designed to protect New Orleans, but failed catastrophically during Hurricane Katrina, was completed under severe financial and political pressure, including opposition from local officials and environmentalists, according to a federally sponsored report set to be releas...
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By Anonymous  Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-New Orleans, was briefed recently by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers regarding the closure of the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet.
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The Environment Agency launches a Â£30m online map on Thursday telling, for the first time, homeowners in England and Wales what risk of flooding they face.