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Is California vulnerable to a New Orleans-style levee break?

April 26, 2017break California Levee new orleans Vulnerable

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Is California vulnerable to a New Orleans-style levee break?

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“The land in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, where California’s two great rivers drain into San Francisco Bay, lies as much as 20 feet below sea level,” warns Jane Wolff, author of Delta Primer: A Field Guide to the California Delta (2003). “If the levees that protect the region fail, we will lose valuable farmland, a unique ecological system and the centerpiece of the state’s water-supply system.

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“The land in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, where California’s two great rivers drain into San Francisco Bay, lies as much as 20 feet below sea level,” warns Jane Wolff, author of Delta Primer: A Field Guide to the California Delta (2003).