With any luck, Chaska’s Athletic Park may have flooded for the last time. The city is considering building a levee that would pro-tect the historic park during flooding events. “The height ...

Palo Alto plans to build a a 1,650-foot underground pipeline (in blue) from the Regional Water Quality Control Plant to a horizontal levee (in green) at the Palo Alto Baylands. Map by Jamey Padojino.

Carver may not keep its raised levee after all. This spring, the National Weather Service predicted a flood echoing the 1965 disaster that engulfed downtown Carver. To ward off the rising ...

Officials say volunteer efforts there minimized damage during the 2011 and 2019 floods, but they need some cash to build another levee. Farmers there are also preparing for the next flood.

As the town faces a combined $90 million or more in spending needed to rebuild, improve and extend the dike and levee system ...

The mandate, said Nicholas Pinter, a professor of applied geoscience at UC Davis who studies California’s levees, amounted to ...

Image: Carlie Kollath Wells/Axios Workers are busy building a "living shoreline" along Metairie's levee as part of a $15+ million overhaul of the lakefront from Bucktown Harbor to Bonnabel Boat ...

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 ...

Those include enhancing what already exists by raising the height and extending the width of the dike, at a cost of $25 million, and building a new 13-foot-high levee, at a cost of $65 million ...