SocialCode, a social media advertising firm and subsidiary of The Washington Post Co., has hired 15 members of the engineering team from the social news site Digg. In an interview, SocialCode chief executive Laura O’Shaughnessy said the engineers will be working on products that compile and analyze data from social networks to help companies glean more information about their customers. (O’Shaughnessy is the daughter of Post Chairman Donald E. Graham.) Read full article > >

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SocialCode hires 15 employees from Digg.com

In southeastern Missouri, where the Army Corps of Engineers blasted a levee last spring to help with flooding, signs of recovery are mounting, but controversy continues.

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Along Mississippi River, Rebuilding Levee After Spring’s Flood

A Corps of Engineers study of cargo shipping on Chicago-area waterways has added to the debate on their role in the economy’s future.

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Chicago News Cooperative: Chicago Waterways Study Stirs Debate on Their Future

The Army Corps of Engineers changed its estimates to say the worst of the floods would come later than projected.

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Slow Pace of Flooding Might Lower Its Crest

Choosing one flood over another, federal officials opened a Mississippi River spillway Saturday for the first time in 38 years, swamping a swath of Cajun country in an attempt to spare the cities of Baton Rouge and New Orleans. The partial diversion of the river will mean the inundation of thousands of square miles of lowlands, but officials say it is necessary to lower the risk of catastrophe in the big cities downstream. The situation remains a highly anxious one for the Army Corps of Engineers and for Louisiana’s residents and public officials. The Mississippi is at, or near, record levels all the way up to Illinois because of extreme deluges in the upper Midwest and meltwater from a winter of heavy snowfall. Read full article > >

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Engineers begin flooding to spare La. cities from Mississippi River

Residents along the Mississippi flood plain have been leaving their homes, sacrificed to flood water, as US army engineers open floodgates in an attempt to protect large cities.

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VIDEO: Residents flee sacrificed flood towns

The Army Corps of Engineers is preparing to open 160 bays along the Bonnet Carr

In an attempt to relieve pressure on the levee system protecting New Orleans, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers opened the Bonnet Carre spillway. The opening of the floodgates at Bonnet Carre will send water down a six-mile channel into Lake…

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Spillway Protecting New Orleans Opened

The intentional breach of a levee on the Mississippi River is helping to ease unprecedented flood pressure on other areas, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said.

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Flooding still forecast after levee breach

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers blasted a levee at the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers to save the town of Cairo, Illinois-a controversial move since it will flood more than 100,000 acres of Missouri farmland. Water from the Mississippi…

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Engineers Blast Illinois Levee

Wyatt, Mo. — The Army Corps of Engineers exploded a large section of a Mississippi River levee Monday in a desperate bid to save an Illinois town from rising floodwaters.

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Army Corps of Engineers blasts hole in levee to save Illinois town from flooding

The Army Corps of Engineers will destroy a levee to ease the bloated Mississippi River upstream, officials said.

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Officials Will Blow Up Missouri Levee Late Monday

The EPA and Army Corps of Engineers have announced a major step to help prevent the destruction caused by mountaintop removal mining.

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Good news in our fight to protect America’s waterways