The Regional Water Quality Control Plant will supply treated wastewater to the city’s new horizontal levee. Embarcadero Media file photo by Veronica Weber. The newest levee in the Palo ...

Katrina makes landfall in Louisiana at 6:10 a.m., but the flooding of residential areas in greater ... engineers had used sandbags to seal the levee "I" walls where the railroad passed through ...

It was 19 years ago that Ruthie Frierson led a group of more than 100 -- called “Citizens for One Levee Board” -- which called for massive reform after the levee failures of Katrina.

Flood protection infrastructure investments, such as Army Corps of Engineers levees, can enhance resilience to flood risks amplified by climate change. We estimate levees’ benefits by exploiting ...