Updates on projects and companies in the Texas & Louisiana region.

From the air, the concrete channel of the Los Angeles River is almost indistinguishable from highways crisscrossing the greater Los Angeles area.

The measure was approved with a strong, bipartisan 384-37 vote.

French contracting giant's water diversion scheme, one of Alberta's largest ever infrastructure projects, will prevent events such as the 2013 flood that caused more than $5B in damage and displaced 125,000 Calgary residents

The new plan will completely reorganize flood-control planning into 15 districts organized by the state's major river basins.

An effort to bolster flood control in northeast Houston through improvements to the Lake Houston dam have been scaled back due to financial constraints on the project. Houston officials say that the length of proposed floodgates will need to be reduced by half to meet the project’s budget.

The lack of 'buy-in' on a plan led to the Corps of Engineers to terminate its flood study.

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.

Storm retention and green space project in Houston is on time and within budget despite pandemic and community-related challenges.