For the second time in two weeks, Tampa General Hospital is getting ready to keep water at bay. Hurricane Milton is expected to make landfall Wednesday and will test the hospital's flood barrier. It ...

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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Army Corps of Engineers says it will close the Seabrook floodgate complex periodically to complete underwater repairs to the barge gate at the Inner Harbor Navigation Canal-Lake ...

Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-East personnel perform a successful test operation of the Inner Harbor Navigation Canal Surge Barrier in New Orleans. This year marks the 20th ...

Massive storm surge barriers would be too costly for the potential benefit to protect New York City from violent storms like Hurricane Sandy, researchers say. U.S. and Netherlands-based researchers ...

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — Located 12 miles from Downtown New Orleans, the Inner Harbor Navigation Canal barrier is protecting vulnerable communities, such as the Lower 9th Ward, from dangerous storm surges ...

PROVIDENCE – When Hurricane Milton makes landfall in Florida, it could bring a storm surge of up to 15 feet in places. While there have been larger storm surges from hurricanes that have hit the Gulf ...

East of New Orleans, uniformed employees mill about the Lake Borgne Surge Barrier on the Intracoastal Waterway, making sure everything is working correctly. Giant flood walls made out of concrete and ...

Twenty years out from the New Orleans disaster, the city’s levee and flood wall system must be raised or the region could become ineligible for federal flood insurance. NEW ORLEANS — Two things are ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - In the aftermath of one of history’s biggest engineering failures -- the breaching of levees during Hurricane Katrina -- the federal government built a nearly $15 billion levee ...