FORT WORTH, Texas -- U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Fort Worth District Levee Safety Program Manager Brian Brasher, was awarded the 2017 Levee Safety Professional of the Year, Aug. 15 in Fort Worth.

The Army Corps of Engineers said Thursday that 122 levees from Rhode Island to California are at risk of failing, potentially affecting thousands of people and requiring millions of dollars in ...

Some estimates across the nation indicate that over 100,000 miles of levee exist and of that number, the USACE designed and constructed over 2,500 systems totaling 14,700 miles of levees with ...

In areas such as New Orleans East, Kenner, and the West Bank, the study found that some levees are sinking at a rate of about ...

So we asked experts, including the levee masters at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, how to build a levee if you know the water's on its way. By Adam Hadhazy Published: May 25, 2011 7:00 AM EDT.

A long-anticipated Army Corps of Engineers study on wood chunks and other debris found in a newly raised levee south of Westwego concluded the levee meets corps specifications and will perform as ...

Image credit: USACE. The "Project Flood" The levees on the Lower Mississippi River are meant to withstand a "Project Flood"--the type of flood the Army Corps of Engineers believes is the maximum ...

The levee the Army Corps is recommending would stretch roughly 1,370 feet along Cobbs Creek. It would look like an “earthen-berm embankment,” about 15 feet tall. The levee would be able to handle a ...

An Army Corps of Engineers-sponsored study of the reasons for failures of the levee system during Hurricane Katrina should include stronger warnings about the risk of living behind New Orleans' ...

A group of 15 specialists met Wednesday, Thursday and Friday to evaluate the condition of the levee that runs along the south side of the Feather River from the Montgomery Street roundabout to Ophi… ...

After more than a decade of work and hundreds of thousands of dollars, the Bennington Levee has been certified as active by the Army Corps of Engineers. The one-time agricultural levee was ...