Levees: 160 years of warnings
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A report from 1846 predicted that using levees on the Mississippi would be destructive to future generations.
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By John M.R. Bull AND Patrick Lynch, Daily Press, Newport News, Va.  Jun. 11--YORKTOWN -- The problems at the Navy's Cheatham Annex are so serious and extensive, federal environmental regulators in 2000 rated the threat to the human food chain at 96.06.
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By Ryan Lafontaine, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Feb. 14--BAY ST. LOUIS -- The 10-year anniversary of when Charles Gray first pushed his idea of a historic preservation ordinance to the Bay City Council is this summer.
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By Brad Heath  VENICE, La. -- State and federal plans for a massive hurricane protection bulwark for Louisiana would sacrifice dozens of coastal communities, some with thousands of residents, to the next Katrina-sized hurricane. The reason: Protecting them would cost too much.
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By Innes, Judith E; Connick, Sarah; Booher, David  In 1994 an unusual, if not unique, collaborative effort emerged to manage the highly contested and interconnected system of waters, levees, and habitat in the San Francisco Bay Estuary and Sacramento- San Joaquin Delta.
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A photographic look at the damage caused by the worst floods to hit the country in 60 years
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The public is urged to check if they live in areas at risk of flooding, on the anniversary of the 1947 floods.
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You might be surprised how far you have to drive from New Orleans, LA to get to the Gulf of Mexico.  Following     the west bank of the Mississippi River along Hwy 23, you go through the separate and well-separated towns of     Belle Chasse, Pointe a la Hache, Port Sulphur, Empire, Boothville, and finally over 60 miles from New Orleans     the tiny oilfield supply and marina town of Venice.    At Empire the highway goes over a pretty tall bridge and on the other side of the canal, beyond the levee     system, Katrina's storm surge came through with a vengeance.  The roads have been cleared but everywhere along     them are the twisted skeletons of steel buildings with vegetation hanging out of shattered second-story     windows.  A refrigerator sits atop the flooded husk of a house.  A perfect square of fenceless pickets     surrounds a perfectly bare concrete slab.  The occasional forlorn FEMA trailer can be spotted parked on one of     many slabs in a field of such slabs that was once a neighborhood.  The carcass of a cow is wedged improbably     in the canopy of a tree twenty feet up.    What is striking is not that the landscape looks like this; most of the coastline of Louisiana and Mississippi     experienced such damage.  What is striking is that it looked like this when I visited last week, in August     2006, almost an entire year after the storm came through.
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By Alex Breitler, The Record, Stockton, Calif.  Feb. 15--STOCKTON -- Levees channeling water through the web-like Delta are nothing like the riverbanks of old, where salmon swam in the shade of native cottonwoods and tangled brush crowded the shores.
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The consequences of climate change may be major when looked at over long stretches of time. But can a disaster that needs thousands of years to unfurl illicit a fast-motion response?
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NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 29 -- Church bells pealed at 9:38 a.m. here Tuesday, the moment floodwaters breached the city's levees a year ago, as the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina cast a funereal pall over this half-empty city.
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Heavy sediment deposited in the Mississippi River delta in the last ice age has caused New Orleans to sink and will continue to drag down coastal Louisiana bit by bit for hundreds of years, according to a new study by NASA and Louisiana State University scientists.
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By Audra D.S. Burch And Kathleen Mcgrory, The Miami Herald  Jun. 28--The epic drought gripping Lake Okeechobee has opened a mud-spattered window into Florida's prehistoric past.
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The devastation of Hurricane Katrina is very much on the nation's radar screen. The disastrous effects of last year's storms on the Gulf Coast fishing industry stand out as a need that is yet to be met.
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NEW ORLEANS -- Terry Tullier remembers Hurricane Betsy all too well. What worries him is that many in New Orleans don&#39;t. &quot;I was 20 years old.
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WASHINGTON _ There was hope for a cure down in the Louisiana bayous even as the Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone expanded like a B-movie blob.  The year was 2000 and states up and down the Mississippi River, spurred by the U.S.
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State officials today urged people to stay where they were because of the possibility of flooding, but not everyone heeded the warning.