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Drinking Water

Underwater Levee Halts Salt Wedge Intrusion on Lower Mississippi River

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Pam McFarland
October 31, 2022
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A barrier sill, built under emergency conditions, has stopped a wedge of salt traveling up the river perilously close to drinking water intakes. 


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West Shore Lake

$760M Levee Project Breaks Ground in Southeast Louisiana After 50-Year Wait

Autumn Cafiero Giusti
July 29, 2021
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Federal, state and local officials broke ground July 26 on a levee project along the western shores of Lake Pontchartrain. It's designed to provide hurricane and storm protection to a three-parish area where 60,000 people have little to no defenses in place.


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Momentum Builds for Major Protection Systems for Lower Mississippi River Valley

Autumn Cafiero Giusti
January 12, 2021
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Plans are moving ahead this week for two massive projects that would deliver 100-year flood protection for the lower Mississippi Valley. The question is whether the money and political will exists for the two protection systems to materialize.


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Kaskaskia, Ill., flood of 1993

Kaskaskia, an Illinois Island Community in the Mississippi River, Still Can't Assess Flood Damages

The island, the first capital of Illinois, was cut off from the mainland by flood water from April to July
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Jeff Yoders
July 12, 2019
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Even though flood water has fallen to levels that make some bridges and channel roads passable in the tiny island town of Kaskaskia, Ill., local officials still don't have a good idea of how much damage more than three months of being submerged has done.


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Tropical Storm To Test New Orleans Hurricane, Pump Systems

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Pam Radtke Russell
July 12, 2019
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New Orleans is facing the biggest test of its post-Katrina hurricane protection system as the region is bracing for up to 20 inches of rain from Barry.


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ENR Letters

Letter: Levee Failture Clarification

May 25, 2016
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In your story on the Permanent Canal Closures and Pumps project in New Orleans (ENR 5/9 p. 24), with regard to the severity of Hurricane Katrina’s storm surge in Lake Pontchartrain, wave heights were typically similar to those assumed for the design of the structures (IPET, vol. 1, p. 2).
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180 Miles of California Levees Declared Ineligible for Federal Rebuild Funds

Robert Carlsen
August 28, 2012
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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has declared 17 levee systems in the California Central Valley—about 180 miles' worth— ineligible for federal rehabilitation assistance should they be damaged in a flood.
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Israel To Build Giant Conveyor To Ease Dead Sea Flood Risk

Neal Sandler
June 11, 2012
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With financing agreed between Israel and one of its largest corporations, preliminary planning has begun on an estimated $600-million project to build what could be one of the world's longest conveyors.
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Corps Gets New Money for 2011 Flood Damage Repairs

Angelle Bergeron
January 9, 2012
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Emerging from the Mississippi River and Tributaries System's worst flood season in history, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and its contractors are gearing up to deliver $802 million worth of repair and reconstruction—more than three times the MR&T's annual operating budget—while continuing to battle ongoing fall and winter floods as well.
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