The new levee stretching from U.S. 90 near Ama east along Lake Cataouatche to Westwego is part of the overhaul of the metro New Orleans hurricane levee system ... in to the Mississippi closed ...

The Mississippi River is high and levees along it are ... Lowlands and properties inside the levee system, he said, are being affected, and the levels are high enough for levee systems to ...

"It's approaching some historical lows that we've had here," Jones said on Oct. 19 as he looked out from the river levee ... States ends up in the Mississippi River system.

which includes the Mississippi's east bank between Chalmette and Pointe a la Hache; one on the western levee along the Atchafalaya River; 10 in the Upper Pontchartrain sector on the east bank of ...

With the Mississippi ... 1,500 feet of the levee system, with no waivers granted, except in cases of imminent threat to human life or safety. When the flow of the river at New Orleans reaches ...

The river’s levee system has disconnected much of the lower Mississippi’s main channel from the flood plain — an unintended consequence of the Army Corps of Engineers’ flood control and ...

The system was born out of the devastation left behind by Hurricane Besty, and then destroyed and redone following Hurricane Katrina.

The system is intended to provide flood risk reduction to the vast expanse of the developed alluvial valley from periodic overflows of the Mississippi River. The mainstem levee system begins at ...

The Mississippi River is near flood stage, with the waters of the river lapping just four feet below the lowest point in the levee system protecting the city. If PTC 2 intensifies into Hurricane ...

NEW ORLEANS — Ducks have taken roost on a sandy strip along the Mississippi ... the river levee. More than a third of the rain in the United States ends up in the Mississippi River system.