A new levee could protect thousands. But where do you get 150,000 dump trucks’ worth of dirt?
Got 150,000 trucks of dirt? You are needed
State get credit from Corps
The freshwater diversion will help offset wetland destruction caused by new levees along Lake Pontchartrain.
Coastal Restortion Bill to the legislature
More than 50 projects contemplated for southeast Louisiana
The Mississippi rises and work stops
‘It’s pretty early in the season for flooding’
Corps approves Upper Barataria levee project
Corps approval allows Congress to consider authorizing and funding the project
$2.7 billion to build infrastructure needs
Louisiana levees, infrastructure projects to get $2.7B boost from infrastructure, disaster bills
Baton Rouge flood protection cleared
A big roadblock to a huge, long-delayed Baton Rouge flooding project has been cleared
Making us safe through 2078
Decision shows administration’s commitment to defend region against stronger hurricanes, rising seas
Levee land cleared for levee
Levee to protect LaPlace can move forward after appeals court orders land expropriation
Ban the levee – meet me in court
Delay could require Army Corps of Engineers to re-bid contract to build access roads, levee district says