I'm Travis Mackel. 20 years ago when Hurricane Katrina hit, the bulk of the damage done when 3 major levee systems all failed. The industrial canal levee failed. The London Avenue Canal levee failed, ...

It has been 20 years since New Orleans’ faulty levee system failed during Hurricane Katrina, causing a flood that claimed almost 1,400 lives and inflicted more than $150 billion in economic damage.

The New Orleans Levee Protection System was designed to protect the city from massive flooding. The levee system was born out of the devastation left behind by Hurricane Besty, and then destroyed and ...

PALMVIEW, Texas (Border Report) — As federally-authorized construction crews toiled away Thursday to repair four giant breaches in the earthen levees caused by border wall construction in South Texas, ...

A nearly $40 million metro-east project that officials believe will enhance flooding prevention along the Mississippi River has been completed, officials said Friday. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Nearly two decades after Hurricane Katrina devastated the region, Levees.org is pressing the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to clarify whether the metro area’s $14 billion ...

A Chinook helicopter drops sandbags into a breach along the London Avenue canal in New Orleans to close a levee breach after Hurricane Katrina in August 2005. After the storm, the Army Corps of ...