Feds fear levee failure in Sacramento
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Federal officials proposed rules Tuesday to limit building in a flood-prone neighborhood after concluding that levees protecting the area from the Sacramento River could be overwhelmed in a major storm.
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By Joan Kent, La Crosse Tribune, Wis.  Dec. 15--La Crosse officials will consider a request in January to have the city engineer prepare plans for other types of barriers on the Riverside Park levee.
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By AMY WOLD  With Congress not passing a Water Resources Development Act this year, federal funding to address south Louisiana's coastal land loss probably won't be coming anytime soon.
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A levee broke on an irrigation canal over the weekend, soaking Fernley, Nev., as larger storm systems battered the West Coast and were blamed for at least three deaths.
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Supporters of the San Diego River Conservancy, which has been targeted for elimination by Gov. Schwarzenegger&#39;s government-efficiency commission, turned up at a public hearing yesterday to plead their case.
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Building inspectors planned to go door to door Tuesday to assess damage from the flood caused by a break in a century-old irrigation canal, as homeowners face uncertainty over who will help them pay for repairs.
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EDINBURG, Texas  - Federal officials said on Friday they will raise a stretch of Rio Grande river levees in Texas instead of building a small section of the controversial U.S.-Mexico border wall across the property of reluctant landowners.
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By John Dickey, Appeal-Democrat, Marysville, Calif.  Jun. 23--State officials briefed Yuba-Sutter business people Friday on the state's levee bond and flood-control measures.
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There is a "high possibility" a huge underground drainage tunnel could soon fail, flooding parts of this mountain-ringed metropolis 15 feet deep in sewage, the national water agency said Tuesday.
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Only $1 billion of the $77 billion the city is seeking from the Army Corps of Engineers is for infrastructure damages it says it suffered because of levee breaches during Hurricane Katrina. The rest is for such things as the city's tarnished image and tourist industry losses.
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The rain-swollen Rio Grande River threatened to push through an earthen dam and cause flooding in El Paso, prompting evacuation orders for residents, officials said.
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By The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Mar. 3--For thousands of you, a ballot is about to come in the mail that may end up saving your home from a disastrous flood. Yes, it is election time once again, but just for some property owners and a single, very special cause.
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The Federal Highway Administration told state authorities to take a new look at bridges to make sure they do not have the kind of design flaw that doomed the I-35W bridge, which collapsed in Minneapolis last summer.
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PEOPLE in Los Angeles were left terrified that they were about to be hit by a monster storm. The California governor&#39;s Office of Emergency Services mistakenly issued a tornado alert for LA on Saturday, and
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CONCORD, Mass., Feb. 2  /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New England District has determined that five federally-constructed local protection projects in Massachusetts have levees of concern.
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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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By Victoria Cherrie, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Sep. 24--CONCORD -- Editor's note: A story in Cabarrus Neighbors today on the Concord/Kannapolis water transfer request went to press before the state postponed its decision.