Darren Austin stood atop a hulking wall at the edge of Lake Pontchartrain and watched the Seabrook Floodgate glide closed, the movement of the massive structure progressing so slowly that it was ...

Barge was cracked in June during a test of its ability to sink in place to block hurricane storm surges The Army Corps of Engineers on Thursday will begin intermittent closures of the Seabrook ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Army Corps of Engineers says it will close the Seabrook floodgate complex periodically to complete underwater repairs to the barge gate at the Inner Harbor Navigation Canal-Lake ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Army Corps of Engineers awarded a $2.2 million contract to Louisiana-based Phylway Constructors LLC to build seepage cutoff works along the Lake Pontchartrain levee from ...

The Seabrook Floodgate closed at 1:30 p.m., sealing off the Industrial Canal from rising water on Lake Pontchartrain. The next piece of the flood protection system to be closed will be the London ...

HOUSTON, Oct 6 (Reuters) - Massive barge gates shut to prevent flooding in New Orleans were reopened on Sunday and energy firms started returning workers to oil platforms in the Gulf of Mexico, after ...