Sentences with phrase «federal levees»

Recognizes the state's role in regulating property insurance markets and the federal government's in addressing mega-catastrophes as well as critical infrastructure such as federal levees and dams.

Despite spending more than $ 25 billion on federal levees and dams, national flood losses continue to rise.

After Katrina, federal levees were built that stopped at the town of Braithwaite.

These federal levees are 32 feet high north of Braithwaite and 22 feet high south of Braithwaite.

Federal levees already existed to the south of Braithwaite.

Not exact matches

Thanks to pockets of investment for things like a new $ 1.2 billion medical center that will spearhead bio-tech research, and a staggering $ 70 billion in federal aid that has gone to rebuilding infrastructure — including a $ 15 billion state of the art levee system — Landrieu says, the city has created 9,100 new jobs since his administration took over in 2010.

Hurricane Katrina caused mass devastation and loss of life because recommendations to bolster the levees shielding New Orleans and other protective measures were neglected for decades despite urgent expert warnings, and because the federal emergency relief effort failed completely after the storm.

Bedient says the state doesn't have time to wait for federal money, and that levees to hold surges back could be constructed with local funding.

That new approach could include strategies such as removing or setting back levees in some locations to promote seasonal flooding, strengthening regulations to reduce the discharge of contaminants into waterways, reworking the operations of some dams to facilitate fish passage, and changing federal and state laws to move conservation efforts to a broad, ecosystem - based approach.

That's the conclusion of a new study by a team of University of Notre Dame researchers led by Joannes Westerink, chair of the department of civil and environmental engineering and earth sciences and co-developer of the authoritative computer model for storm surge used by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the state of Louisiana to determine water levels due to hurricane surge and to design levee heights and alignments.

In this politically polarized climate, this will seem to many like another unwanted federal «taking,» but why should my freedom extend to building a levee to protect my property that will increase the risk to your property downstream on that same river?

Today, we have more than 400 major federal dams and reservoirs in the United States, along with 500 miles of levees and dikes, according to the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).

Federal funds were requested to bolster the levees several years before Katrina but no money was authorized.