At the 17th Street levee, where an early-morning breach Aug. 29 led to flooding in downtown New Orleans and on the city’s west side, the floodwall’s old sheet-metal underpinnings may have not ...

New Orleans area levee improvements already outpaced by science, engineering, engineer says Mark Schleifstein, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune Jan 18, 2013 ...

Rowshon Jadid, Brina M. Montoya, Victoria Bennett, Mohammed A. Gabr. Effect of repeated rise and fall of water level on seepage-induced deformation and related stability analysis of Princeville ...

Gov. Jeff Landry has decided against appointing a renowned civil engineering expert to the board of a New Orleans area levee authority, raising concerns that reforms following Hurricane Katrina to ...

Levee Rebuilding Questioned After Sandy Breach Experts are taking a close look at the country's levees after the failure of one caused massive flooding in New Jersey during Superstorm Sandy.

The publisher Bloomsbury tells USA TODAY in an exclusive announcement that it has acquired rights to Subway Therapy by artist Matthew “Levee” Chavez in a two-book deal. Subway Therapy will be ...

With combined expertise in civil infrastructure engineering, computer science, remote sensing and robotics, and AI/ML studies, the team aims to develop reliable and rapid levee inspection processes.

FC Levee has announced the release of his new book of quotes, thoughts and reflections, The Words of Levee: Life Laws and the Light. Add a Show Listing: ...

The West Sacramento-based engineering firm Kjeldsen, Sinnock, and Neudeck, Inc. oversees the levee and says it was notified of the failure on Oct. 21.

Two of the best-remembered levee disasters in the United States both decimated New Orleans, once after the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and again after Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

This is the levee built to control the mighty Mississippi — a feat of engineering that keeps the wild river at a necessary distance. In his new book, ...

The Lake Pontchartrain levee in Metairie is shown Aug. 13, 2020. Gov. Jeff Landry has refused to appoint University of New Orleans Civil Engineering Prof. Norma Jean Mattei to a seat representing ...