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

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

Paul, where the Mississippi ... over here and the levee behind that's kind of built into the landscape, just shows what a city can do in terms of preventing of planning for flooding," said Paula ...

They needed a more advanced levee system, and for that they turned to the federal government. In 1879 Congress created the Mississippi River Commission to oversee federal funds for flood control.

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

The projects will emphasize nature-based solutions to blunt the impacts of some of the river's major problems, like flooding and drought.

A Frenchman visiting the Mississippi River near what would become New Orleans writes, "This last summer I examined better than I had yet done all the lands in the vicinity of this river.

CORRECTS CITY TO HARAHAN NOT HARHAN People walk from the snow covered Mississippi River levee the day after a rare and record setting snowstorm in Harhan, La., a suburb of New Orleans, Wednesday ...

The Mississippi River is managed in large part by the ... river to protect communities and valuable farmland from flooding — and some levee districts have raised those levees higher ...

We searched our archives for the best photos to capture the great flood 20 ... in Missouri River floodwater Aug. 1, 1993, after the failure of the Monarch Chesterfield Levee.

Flood control along the Mississippi River is a central piece of a newly passed federal law — work that advocates believe is critical as the river basin sees more frequent and severe extreme ...