Levee breaches

Arizona levee breached, hiker missing after floods hit West

By SAM METZ and JESSE BEDAYNAugust 22, 2022 GMT

A levee was breached Monday in a small town near the Arizona-New Mexico state line, forcing the evacuations of 60 people after a weekend of flash floods across the American Southwest that also swept away one woman who is still missing in Utah’s Zion National Park.

Flooded Mississippi a threat as hurricane season heats up

By JEFF MARTIN and JANET McCONNAUGHEYAugust 14, 2019 GMT

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The river that drains much of the flood-soaked United States is still running higher than normal, menacing New Orleans in multiple ways just as the hurricane season intensifies...

In central US, levee breaches flood some communities

By HANNAH GRABENSTEINJune 1, 2019 GMT

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Crews were making a "last ditch effort" on Saturday to save low-lying parts of a small Arkansas city from floodwaters pouring through a breached levee, and authorities downstream were warning people to leave a neighborhood that sits across the swollen river from the state capital...

Another try to place levee sites on historic list

By KEVIN McGILLAugust 31, 2013 GMT

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — An advocacy group is making a second attempt to place a site where a levee breached during 2005's Hurricane Katrina on the National Register of Historic Places — this time crafting an application that tries to get around opposition by the U.S.

Katrina levee breach won’t get historic listing

By KEVIN McGILLJune 15, 2012 GMT

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Two sites where levees breached during Hurricane Katrina and led to catastrophic flooding in New Orleans will not be listed on the National Register of Historic Places alongside notable landmarks such as Civil War battlefields and presidential birthplaces, the National Park Service said.

Historic markers sought for Katrina levee breaches

KEVIN McGILLAugust 4, 2010 GMT

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A New Orleans group is seeking federal recognition for two of the spots where levee breaches during Hurricane Katrina unleashed catastrophic flooding that tossed houses from their foundations and killed hundreds of people.