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Unreliable Levees Not Only a Louisiana Phenomenon
New Orleans’s protective levee system gained notoriety for its disastrous failure during Hurricane Katrina, but at-risk levees are not unique to the Mississippi delta. Although protective levees around the country may not risk failure in such dramatic fashion as those in New Orleans, the threat their failure poses to life and property is real and substantial. A recent story in USA Today, “Hundreds of Levees No Longer Reliable,” highlights FEMA’s downgrade of levee safety ratings in Arizona and California and illustrates the shared fate of all who live within levees.
