The Corps didn’t seem concerned during a past levee inspection, but now the trees have been flagged as a problem, he said. The standards also require televised inspections of water penetrations ...

This story, headlined "Levee inspections only scratch the surface," was originally published Nov. 25, 2005. It is being republished for the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina as part of The ...

The Topeka, Kansas Flood Risk Reduction Project was first authorized by the Flood Control Act in 1936, following decades of destructive flooding along the Kansas River that crippled northeast Kansas ...