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Pacific levee breach: Evacuees likely can’t return until the weekend as another storm approaches

Hundreds evacuated in Pacific as levee breach prompts ongoing emergency orders. Community faces uncertain future.
The Stranger

Levee Breached in King County

About two hours after a levee on the lower Green River broke, bringing the possibility of a life-threatening flash flood to ...

Volunteers plant Bay Area’s first ‘living levee’ using treated wastewater

The nearly $7 million project in Palo Alto uses treated wastewater to irrigate vegetation. The water can then flow directly ...

'Living' levee in Palo Alto Baylands aims to solve multiple problems with one-of-a-kind solution

A new horizontal living levee will protect from sea-level rise in an environmentally friendly way, while also maintaining ...
The Advocate

A new levee could protect thousands. But where do you get 150,000 dump trucks' worth of dirt?

After Hurricane Isaac flooded thousands of homes in St. John the Baptist Parish in 2012, a storm protection levee that had languished in the federal bureaucracy for decades got a kick start of ...