A sprawling, hidden network of ancient irrigation canals has been uncovered near the ancient city of Eridu in southern Mesopotamia. Under the leadership of geoarchaeologist Jaafar Jotheri, researchers ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has uncharacteristically been working with nature instead of bulldozing it into submission.

A levee is a raised bank formed on the banks of a river, in the lower course. Due to the drop in energy caused by friction, the biggest, most coarse material will be dumped close to the river banks.

The infrastructure is about 70 years old, with 26 miles of concrete flood walls and earthen levees and a network of 16 pump stations. The pumps send water accumulating inside the city out to the Ohio ...

Iowa Agriculture Week is wrapping up, Friday’s theme was resilience. To bring this theme to life, the focus was on levee repairs after the past floods in 2011 and 2019.

A fourth board member at the New Orleans area levee authority resigned on Thursday, escalating the fallout over controversial ...

So far this month, four members resigned from a New Orleans-area levee board, most of them citing the reversal of reforms ...

The collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge left the Baltimore community forever changed. What has America learned from past ...

The high river levees allowed water to flow by gravity ... The study also highlights how the irrigation system evolved over centuries. The canals required significant labor and expertise to ...

High water levels for the Mississippi River in New Orleans spurred increased levee inspections from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, its New Orleans District announced Monday, Feb. 24. The river ...

High water levels for the Mississippi River in New Orleans spurred increased levee inspections from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, its New Orleans District announced Monday. The river rose above 11 ...