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A subcontractor has been sentenced to five years in prison for conspiring to bribe two Army Corps of Engineers consultants over bids to reconstruct levees after Hurricane Katrina.
The United States needs a complete inventory of all levees and a national safety standard for the last line of defense against floods, say members of the National Committee on Levee Safety.
Carol Byram sees paradise every time she gazes at the dogwood, hackberry and cherry laurel trees in the backyard of her New Orleans home. The federal government sees the seeds of another disaster for a city still recovering from Hurricane Katrina.
Transportation corridors opened over and along the Mississippi River on Wednesday as floodwaters continued to recede at a rapid pace.
Long after the waters subside, the floods that submerged the Midwest this month could turn out to be the region’s biggest economic disaster in decades, with ramifications that will be felt by consumers across the country.
CLARKSVILLE, Mo. - With humans having worked themselves beyond exhaustion in the fight to save this historic riverfront town from the Mississippi’s floodwaters, the battle is now largely up to machines.
EAST HANNIBAL, Ill. - In a move that local officials say threatens hundreds of homes and tens of thousands of acres of crops, the Norfolk Southern Railroad has refused to raise a bridge that residents fear could create a giant logjam on the Mississippi River and send floodwaters pouring over a fragile levee.
A former Army Corps of Engineers consultant and a dirt subcontractor were indicted Thursday on bribery charges stemming from an investigation into levee work after Hurricane Katrina.
Saying his hands were tied by law, a federal judge dismissed a class-action lawsuit against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers over levee breaches after Hurricane Katrina, but rebuked the agency for failing to protect the city.
The federal agency responsible for maintaining the city's levees is dysfunctional and needs to be overhauled to prevent future catastrophic flooding, scientists said in a report released Monday.
In just eight months, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has done years of work on the Katrina-battered ramparts around New Orleans.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger declared a state of emergency Friday for California's levee system, a step officials said would help speed up repairs to 24 flood-prone sites.
Army Corps levee tree rules rattle Sacramento flood agencies If a tree grows on a levee, is it bad? According to a recent scientific review, there's no way to tell by reading federal policy.
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Begins Work on Massive Flood WallIt is about time. Hopefully they actually build it they way they design it. When they built the levee's around the New Orleans area, they didn't build them to spec. It was cheaper to drive the sheet piles 14 feet instead of 21 feet.
The Storm Cloud That Hangs over John McCainMcCain voted repeatedly against a Senate investigation into what went wrong during Katrina.
Gustav May Overwhelm New Orleans Defenses, Experts SayAs tropical storm Gustav continues its trek toward the U.S. Gulf Coast today—the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina's Louisiana landfall—experts doubt New Orleans's levees can handle a direct hit from a major hurricane.
Tarantulas, Fire Ants & Snakes Lurk in Texas Floodwaters | The Associated PressSouth Texans eager to salvage what they can from waterlogged homes struck by Hurricane Dolly have another problem: The floodwaters they're slogging through are laced with stinging fire ants, snakes and tarantulas.
The Broken Levee System The Bush administration has scolded the city of Davenport, Iowa, for its failure to build a permanent flood wall to protect itself from the swollen Mississippi River.
The 17th Street Levee In New Orleans, Site of the Primary Breach During Katrina, Is LeakingDespite more than $22 million in repairs, a levee that broke with catastrophic effect during Hurricane Katrina is leaking again because of the mushy ground on which New Orleans was built, raising serious questions about the reliability of the city's flood defenses.
D.C. - Another New Orleans?Washington, D.C. levee sited as a weakness in the city's flood defences.
A Human Levee -Nearly 200 New Orleans residents and their supporters assembled a month before the two-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina to do something their government had refused to do: build a levee.
Levee Work May Put French Quarter in Greater DangerLevee Work May Put New Orleans's French Quarter in Greater Danger Than Before Katrina Sunday, July 01, 2007
No Katrina For Clinton: CBS Excuses Feds of Blame on Levee Repairs In 1993While the liberal media tries to make over a Kansas tornado to resemble their perfect media bias storm over Hurricane Katrina, the floods in Missouri may be a more analogous comparison.
Critic Says New Orleans Levees Show Signs of FlawsSome of the most celebrated levee repairs by the Army Corps of Engineers after Hurricane Katrina are already showing signs of serious flaws, a leading critic of the corps says.
Details of Bush levee budget revealedThe biggest chunk of the $1.3 billion that the White House wants to spend finishing the West Bank hurricane protection system would come from a fund now earmarked to block storm surges in three big east bank drainage canals, including two that breached during Katrina and allowed …
Bush's levee budget upsets VitterPresident Bush is expected to shift $1.3 billion away from raising and armoring levees, installing floodgates and building permanent pumping in Southeast Louisiana in order to plug long-anticipated financial shortfalls in other hurricane-protection projects, a move Sen.
Bush Shifts $1.3 Billion Away From Levee Repair in Katrina Ravaged LouisianaPresident Bush is expected to shift $1.3 billion away from raising and armoring levees, installing floodgates and building permanent pumping in Southeast Louisiana in order to plug long-anticipated financial shortfalls in other hurricane-protection projects, a move Sen.
New Orleans: Raising the Level of ProtectionWith almost $6 billion in hand and work well under way to strengthen flood defenses throughout southeast Louisiana, the levee system protecting the region still could be likened to a patient who no longer needs life support but remains in intensive care.
Is Katrina to blame?Is it time to stop blaming New Orleans' every pathology on the hurricane and flooding that ensued? The horrific discovery last week of Hall's charred body parts in various pots and pans and in the refrigerator of the North Rampart Street apartment she shared with Bowen was not …
How ought structures be designed which have to be counted on to support people's lives at key moments?
NPR : Why Did the 17th Street Canal Levee Fail in New Orleans?(audio article) An analysis and interviews with many people who offer a picture of how and why the New Orleans canal broke and flooded the city.
Levee Plans Fall Short of FEMA StandardsThe levees that the Army Corp of Engineers is currently building in New Orleans leave many areas officially unprotected, because they do not meet FEMA's "100-year-flood" standard (which requires that there may be only a 1% chance of a flood affecting a specific area each year).
Levee Fixes Falling Short, Experts WarnNEW ORLEANS -- The Army Corps of Engineers seems likely to fulfill a promise by President Bush to rebuild New Orleans's toppled flood walls to their original, pre-Katrina height by June 1, but two teams of independent experts monitoring the $1.6 billion reconstruction project say
AlterNet: Haunted by KatrinaReport about a family who was forced to migrate to New York after the Katrina disaster. If you want to learn about the hardships involved, read this article, it gives a troubling first-hand impression of the catastrophes that still follow the hurricane.
Post-Katrina Promises UnfulfilledNearly five months after Hurricane Katrina swamped New Orleans, President Bush's lofty promises to rebuild the Gulf Coast have been frustrated by bureaucratic failures and competing priorities, a review of events since the hurricane shows.
Katrina: White House Was Told Hurricane Posed Danger - International - SPIEGEL ONLINE - NewsAs we all knew, the White House knew about the terrible consequences Katrina would bring to New Orleans. But did they help? No. Why not?
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