Recently, in a letter in this publication, writers Paul Kemp and Ivor van Heerden stated the pre-Hurricane Katrina levee boards gave the Army Corps of Engineers a 40-year pass on the “never quite ...

Rushford’s levee system didn’t fail in 2007. It was overwhelmed. Seventeen inches of rain spread across a day formed a rushing wall of water that barreled through Rush Creek and rose over parts of the ...

The passage of Senate Bill 5 in 2007 to identity 200-year flood plains in California in the aftermath of the Hurricane Katrina levee failure disaster and required protection to be in place — or work ...