SOME SPECIAL INSPECTIONS ARE GOING ON ALONG THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER LEVEES AS WATER REACHES ITS PEAK LEVEL TODAY, WDSU’S ELIZABETH KUEBEL IS SHOWING US JUST HOW HIGH THAT GAGE IS RIGHT NOW AND WHY ...

An Arkansas River levee breached early Friday southeast of the city of Dardanelle, sending water gushing into farmland that already had been saturated by leaks in the levee a day earlier ...

A series of analyses have helped confirm what engineers have posited for more than a century: that earthen levees built along the river are increasing flood risk for everyone, and especially ...

"Prior to levee building, the river was a wild thing and it spread out between the river bluffs," Knaup said Monday. "Now we've tried to tame it. Mother Nature and Old Man River will fight back." ...

As the waters rose along the Mississippi River in 1927, people patrolled the levees with guns, occasionally taking a boat across in attempts to sabotage the opposing bank to relieve the mounting ...

For miles around Ippensen’s corn and soybean farm, the Mississippi River — raging at all-time flood highs or near them — devoured thousands of acres of prime farmland. At least nine levees ...

The Army Corps of Engineers has increased its surveillance of the state’s Mississippi River levees as the swollen river continues to rise. Although the river isn’t expected to overrun or ...

The national Sierra Club was one of several environmental groups who sued the Army Corps of Engineers to stop a 1996 plan to raise and fortify Mississippi River levees. The Army Corps was planning ...

Reclamation district officials in Wilton said Tuesday that it will cost $1.5 million to fill a gaping hole the size of a football field in the Cosumnes River levee, one of 11 trouble spots they ...

>> THE BANKS OF THE SACRAMENTO RIVER USUALLY PROVIDE A BIT OF PEACE. A SANCTUARY TO FORGET ABOUT THE OUTSIDE WORLD. BUT WHEN THE RIVER IS A SWOLLEN AS IT IS NOW. VERY LITTLE RELAXATION. >> IT CAN ...

The official flood stage in New Orleans is 17 feet, but a combination of recently elevated earthen levees and floodwalls on both sides of the river in the New Orleans area protect most locations ...