And like the 17th Street Canal, those levees didn't have one designer, but many: the Army Corps, Congress, local levee boards and various interest groups. Residents will have to decide if they ...

The lot is where a segment of the pre-Hurricane Katrina I-wall -- made up of single panels of concrete atop metal sheet piling driven into an earthen levee -- slid out 35 feet from the canal on ...

Buried in an East Jefferson Levee District contract from 1992, the drawings show that the canal bank all along the area that would collapse during Katrina was concave, dipping far beyond the ...

Residents of New Orleans who live along the 17th Street Canal say that water was leaking from the canal and into their yards months before Hurricane Katrina caused the levee system to collapse.

An embankment of New Phuleli Canal developed a dozens of feet long breach, inundating at least half a dozen villages and hundreds of acres of agricultural land here on Monday. An official of Rescue ...

The industrial canal levee failed. The London Avenue Canal levee failed, and so did the one on the 17th Street Canal. 17th Street Canal doing damage to Lakeview and Mid City.

At about 10:30 a.m., the eastern levee of the 17th Street Canal bursts forth a few hundred yards south of the hurricane-proof bridge along the Metairie Hammond Highway.

At the 17th Street Canal Levee is an erosion project, that's been in the works for quite some time. Advertisement Flood Protection Authority said this work is meant to protect the levee from ...

The LNVA canal levee sprung a major leak sending water into a neighborhood off major and 105. The canal was breached water came rushing in, filling the streets and ditches after 11 a.m. Thursday.