First, there was President Trump’s executive order to release billions of gallons of water from two reservoirs in the Central Valley, a move the Feds walked back after farmers and water experts ...

In recent weeks, powerful atmospheric river storms have swept across Washington, Oregon and California, unloading enormous amounts of rain. As rivers surged, they overtopped or breached multiple ...

SEATTLE — Record-breaking flooding has led to continuous monitoring of critical levees in the area, including the White, Green, and Cedar River levees. The Washington National Guard, along with ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said on Tuesday that it had secured funding for an annual inspection of the crucial levee and pump system that protects the New Orleans region from storm surge ...

70 years ago, storms, snowmelt caused the levee breach in Sutter County Delayed warnings and faulty communication left residents unprepared. Flood prompted dams, levee upgrades and formation of Yuba ...

Federal budget cuts will stop the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers from conducting regular inspections of New Orleans’ levees this year and next — a break in oversight that comes 20 years after protection ...

OROVILLE — The 1.3-mile stretch of levee protecting Oroville from more than 100,000 cubic feet per second of water in the Feather River received a “low risk” rating by a recent study by the U.S. Army ...

The US Army Corps of Engineers rated the maintenance of 120 miles of Sacramento River levees north and south of Colusa as unacceptable. The report card, while just recently released, came from ...

A drone provides a view of construction equipment placing rock to close a levee break caused by floodwaters from the Pajaro River near the township of Pajaro in Monterey County, California. The ...

Farshid Vahedifard received funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). He is affiliated with the United Nations University ...