Aug 31st, 2008 · In New Orleans, the Army Corps of Engineers has spent much of the past three years strengthening the levee system that Katrina breached — but the project isn't supposed to be finished until 2011. Bob Turner, regional director for flood protection in Southeast Louisiana, talks to host Jacki Lyden about the project.
Aug 29th, 2008 · As New Orleans' levees buckled, Kim Rivers Roberts turned her video camera on marooned friends, relatives and neighbors. Roberts' footage has been adapted into a powerful documentary that is as much about America as it is about the deadly storm.
Jun 25th, 2008 · The city of New Orleans flooded after Hurricane Katrina, in part because some of the levees protecting the city failed. In recent weeks, there have been reports about levees breaking in Iowa and Missouri. But initial reports are that most of those levees performed as they were supposed to.
Jun 23rd, 2008 · Missouri forecasters said Monday the flooded Mississippi River is about to stop rising. But that news may come too late for some towns. In rural Lincoln County, virtually all of the region's primary levees failed, causing the river to reclaim tens of thousands of acres of floodplain. Adam Allington reports from member station KWMU in St. Louis.
Jun 23rd, 2008 · After the huge floods in 1993, a few Midwestern states got together with the Army Corps of Engineers to draw up a plan to build higher levee walls along the Mississippi River. The plan could have helped limit the amount of flooding the region is now seeing. The final draft of the report was released in February. But it doesn't look like the federal government will fund it. The project ranks low on the Army Corps of Engineers' priority list.
Jun 21st, 2008 · A 34-foot-high levee has spared the main part of Hannibal, Mo., the boyhood town of Mark Twain. The surging Mississippi River has swamped other parts of the state.
Jun 20th, 2008 · Gerald E. Galloway, professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Maryland, is a retired Army brigadier general. He talks about the state of the levee system of the upper Mississippi River, and things that can be done to prevent the next natural disaster. Michele Norris talks to Galloway.
Jun 19th, 2008 · Numerous levees have already failed to hold back floodwaters in parts of the Midwest this week. The federal government says many more are likely to be topped. Engineering experts agree the nation's levee system needs a second look. Adriene Hill of Chicago Public Radio reports.