These are the emerging challenges Louisiana and the nation are struggling to content with on the lower Mississippi River.

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - A group of barges got off course on the Mississippi River Monday morning, with the front of one of the barges coming in contact with the levee. It happened near Skip ...

NEW ORLEANS — With the Mississippi River ... Army Corps of Engineers, daily levee patrols will begin to monitor potential issues caused by the elevated river levels. The agency is coordinating ...

During high-water events like we're currently experiencing on the Lower Mississippi, rising river levels flood the batture, the strip of land between the river and the levee. The flooding drives ...

The rising Mississippi River has ... when the river hit 11 feet on the Carrollton gauge. That meant twice-weekly inspections of the levee system. During Phase I, all subsurface construction ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - With the Mississippi ... levee authorities. The heightened monitoring aims to quickly identify and respond to any potential weak points in the levee system caused by elevated ...