The agency has been without a leader as hurricane season gets underway. But board members are questioning whether the new ...

A series of events put on by Levees.Org, the national investigative and educational nonprofit dedicated to holding the ...

The Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority–East (SLFPA–E) has hired Louis (Jeff) Williams as its new Chief Engineer, ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - For the first time in months, the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-East (SELA East) has a ...

Researchers used satellite radar data to track elevation changes across the city's Hurricane and Storm Damage Risk Reduction ...

But the New Orleans area's $15 billion federal hurricane protection system – a network of surge barriers, floodwalls and bolstered levees erected after Hurricane Katrina in 2005 – mostly did ...

New Orleans Levees Passed Hurricane Ida's Test, But Some Suburbs Flooded. August 31, 2021 10:45 AM ET. By . The Associated Press Enlarge this image ...

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has more than 140 projects in the works to try to reduce the risks to New Orleans from the next hurricane. As hurricane protection goes, so goes New Orleans' future - CNET ...

NEW ORLEANS — Peak hurricane season is just weeks away along the Gulf Coast, and the New Orleans Sewerage and Water Board is scrambling to fix key flood protection equipment. According to the ...

The Army Corps of Engineers is mandated to provide New Orleans with an improved hurricane protection system by 2011. Virginia Tech geotechnical engineers are among the researchers analyzing the ...

Hurricane Ida peeled roofs off homes, flooded some communities and knocked out power to more than 1 million homes and businesses in Louisiana.. But the New Orleans area's $15 billion federal hurricane ...