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Review of the National Levee Safety Guidelines
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will convene an ad hoc committee of experts to review the National Levee Safety Guidelines document. The National Levee Safety Program ...
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New Orleans levee board members quit as Jeff Landry's adviser pursues controversial changes
The wave of resignations risks leaving the flood control agency paralyzed, with hurricane season's start just weeks away.
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How New Orleans Flooded
Between 4:30 and 5 a.m., levees located where the CSX Railroad crosses the northern arm of the Industrial Canal, in the eastern part of Orleans Parish, breach. With metal gates normally used at ...
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Jeff Landry’s adviser wants to upend key post-Katrina reform at New Orleans flood agencies
A top adviser to Gov. Jeff Landry is leading a push to upend a key post-Katrina reform at the New Orleans area's levee authorities, drawing sharp criticism from government watchdogs who say he ...
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Trump orders and atmospheric rivers: how prepared are California's levees?
The mandate, said Nicholas Pinter, a professor of applied geoscience at UC Davis who studies California’s levees, amounted to “hydrologic insanity.” “The volume they were initially ...