A review of Corps of Engineers levee seepage practices in the United States

Following this flood, the U.S. Congress passed the Flood ControlActs of 1928, 1936, and 1944.The combination of these acts put the USACE firmly into a multipurpose approach (using reservoirs and levees) for flood control. The above brief history was synopsized from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineer’s web page (2005).