Ames Diking levee wiped out during March floods. Skip to content. NOWCAST Tracking severe weather. ... Dike district won't take down temporary levee, wants original one repaired first.

The dike and levee system has protected the town center and areas west from flooding for nearly a century, but concerns have escalated regarding the system’s stability and effectiveness.

If this dike fails, Stanwood goes underwater. The levee is over a hundred years old. And it shows. But efforts have lagged to fix it before it’s too late.

Flooding has tormented thousands of Montanans in spring 2011, but not those people protected by the West Great Falls flood-control levee. Water levels next to the Great Falls dike are the highest ...

The Lake Okeechobee dike is a poor match for a hurricane, engineers warn. But local officials say a New Orleans-style disaster is unlikely. Florida Levee Casts Long Shadow - Los Angeles Times ...

The Herbert Hoover Dike, much of it built in the 1930s after two hurricanes overwhelmed a crude levee and drowned some 3,300 people in lakeside towns, is a massive structure.

1:21 -- City officials say the South Fremont Levee and Union Dike Levee are still holding, but water is at top of both. Work continues to try and preserve both levees. Piling dirt and rocks on ...

Experts hope levee will be repaired by next week. Repairs at Union Dike near completion. Experts hope levee will be repaired by next week ...

Weeks after Weissport’s mayor said he feared the borough’s levee would fail an annual inspection and leave residents unable to get flood insurance, the Army Corps of Engineers gave the earthen ...

FARGO - Flood dike construction in north Fargo hit a $400,000 snag when dirt material thought to be suitable for constructing a new levee was later discovered to not be up to standards.