April 10 (UPI) --A Mississippi county on Wednesday warned of a levee break on a lake, warning subdivision residents to ...

Since then, every generation of settlers to the region has attempted to control the river by building levees, or protective, raised embankments, alongside it. Prior to 1882, Mississippi Delta ...

City crews began clearing the Mad Creek Levee from the Washington Street bridge several weeks ago and have continued clearing toward the junction of Mad Creek with the Mississippi River ...

A first-of-its-kind project seeking to restore river ecosystems along 39 miles of the Lower Mississippi River has federal ...

A breach in the levee on the east bank of the Mississippi 18 miles above New Orleans does an "immense amount of damage," they write, inundating the city for 48 days. Another flood the following ...

Flood control along the Mississippi River is a central piece of a newly passed federal law — work that advocates believe is ...

That old bothersome catchphrase, “better late than never,” certainly applies to the Yazoo Backwater Pump Project in Mississippi’s southern Delta. It required 80-plus years of wrangling with ...

The Mississippi River is managed in large part ... North of St. Louis, for example, levees constrain the river to protect communities and valuable farmland from flooding — and some levee ...

The Mississippi River is managed in large part by the Army Corps ... North of St. Louis, for example, levees constrain the river to protect communities and valuable farmland from flooding — and some ...