floodwalls

When the engineers of the Sewage & Water Board protested that the "floodwalls" the Corps of "Engineers" (?) wanted to build along the drainage canals (which meant graft for Slimy Sidney) would never hold, Barthelemy got rid of them.

A Few More Words About Politics and Targets 2008

Just as the veteran engineers predicted, those phoney "floodwalls" collapsed after Katrina had passed, flooding the city.

A Few More Words About Politics and Targets 2008

The multi-decade project included the construction and enlargement of levees, as well as improving other protections such as floodwalls, including those along the 17th Street Canal.

Making the Case for Willful Neglect 2005

The Army Corps of Engineers this week blew a giant hole in a Missouri levee to relieve pressure on floodwalls facing record water levels at the confluence of the Ohio and the Mississippi rivers.

Bin Laden's Death, Travails of Sony and Silver 2011

The Army Corps of Engineers has spent $13 billion to fortify cities with floodwalls and carve out overflow basins and ponds — a departure from the "levees-only" strategy that led to the 1927 calamity.

Coast Guard reopens part of Mississippi River 2011

A 350-mile defense system of levees, floodwalls, surge barriers and floodgates will be completed in June 2011 after less than four years.

Fighting Back the Waves Vivienne Raper 2011

Earlier in the week, the Coast Guard briefly closed a 15-mile span of the river near Natchez because of the current and concerns that the wakes from passing vessels would put pressure on floodwalls protecting communities.

Out-of-control barges on Mississippi hit bridge 2011

Since the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, a disaster that killed hundreds, Congress has made protecting the cities on the lower Mississippi a priority, spending billions to fortify cities with floodwalls and carve out overflow basins and ponds — a departure from the "levees-only" strategy that led to the 1927 disaster.

Memphis Evacuations Rise Amid Threat From River Associated Press 2011

Engineers blew up a levee in Missouri — inundating an estimated 200 square miles of farmland and damaging or destroying about 100 homes — to take the pressure off floodwalls protecting the town of Cairo, Illinois, population 2,800.

As water creeps closer, residents warned: Get out 2011

The Army Corps of Engineers has spent $13 billion to fortify cities with floodwalls and carve out overflow basins and ponds — a departure from the "levees-only" strategy that led to the 1927 calamity.

Some Kentucky residents return to homes near Mississippi River 2011