Articles Tagged with ''Mississippi River''

Federal, state and local officials broke ground July 26 on a levee project along the western shores of Lake Pontchartrain. It's designed to provide hurricane and storm protection to a three-parish area where 60,000 people have little to no defenses in place.

Benefits are worth the risk, according to state officials and experts, on the proposed $1.4 billion project to rebuild Louisiana’s coastal wetlands.

Plan calls for deepening the river from Baton Rouge to the Gulf to 50 ft., from 45 ft. now.

The Mississippi River Cities and Towns Inititiative has given environmental opportunity grants to Memphis and New Orleans and lobbied congress for resilience projects.

The Mississippi River has been above flood stage in the Midwest for 39 straight days, a record. The high water has kept river projects from completion or even getting started in some cases.

Approval for $2.5 billion oil terminal on the lower Mississippi River is contingent on study findings.

Louisiana attracts worldwide attention as it strives to stem disastrous land loss by diverting a portion of the Mississippi River to rebuild wetlands.

Developers broke ground earlier this month on a $460-million redevelopment of the 33-story New Orleans World Trade Center tower into a Four Seasons Hotel and Residences, bringing to fruition a restoration that has been more than 20 years in the making and mired in setbacks.