Former La Crosse mayor Mitch Reynolds is onto his next project, a newly formed organization focused on removing plastic pollution from middle America’s vital waterways. The MidAmerica Clean Future All ...

When the river floods, the faster-moving river brings sand from throughout the drainage basin to Louisiana. But it doesn’t necessarily help to build up the Bird’s Foot area.

The Amite River Basin Commission recently outlined 13 major projects in its first master plan. Of the costs estimated, the plan could reach more than $3.8 billion. Bayou Manchac improvements: Cost ...

The Mississippi River Basin – America’s aquatic backbone stretching across 1.2 million square miles and 31 states – stands at a critical juncture in its environmental history. As climate change ...

The Mississippi River Basin – America’s aquatic backbone stretching across 1.2 million square miles and 31 states – stands at a critical juncture in its environmental history. As climate change ...

NORWALK – Less than a year after the groundbreaking on a $5.1 million storm drainage improvements project, the state-funded work to address flooding in a Norwalk neighborhood is almost halfway ...

In response to rising water levels on the Mississippi River, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Vicksburg District closed the gates of the Steele Bayou Control Structure Tuesday at 4 p.m ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District operates and maintains the project, which is one of 10 dams in the Cumberland River Basin. (USACE Photo by Danielle Packer) (Photo Credit ...

The Vicksburg District encompasses a 68,000-square-mile area across portions of Mississippi, Arkansas, and Louisiana, that holds nine major river basins and incorporates approximately 460 miles of ...

Its 1.2 million square mile drainage basin includes 32 U.S. states and two Canadian provinces, ... 2014. A collision on the Mississippi River near Luling left a tugboat submerged and its crew ...

This basin will slow water down, helping to prevent any potential downstream flooding issues, as well as erosion. Big projects in MS: Two new hotels for nearly $50 million on way in MS.

Drainage tile, a system farmers use to drain water from croplands, is also a contributor to the historic loss of up to about 100 million acres of wetlands in the U.S., researchers say.