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  • Securing the California Delta's levees before a major earthquake [but let's not talk about that]

    03/24/2011 1:03:43 PM PDT · by delacoert · 9 replies
    In the event of a major earthquake or flood and many levees failing simultaneously in California's Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, as many as 515,000 residents and 520,000 acres of land would be in immediate danger; the long term effects could be even more widespread, as nearly 28 million residents depend on the Delta for water and irrigation; California lawmakers have increasingly turned their attention to securing the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta's levees, but experts say that only little progress has been made After witnessing the destructive potential of broken levees during Hurricane Katrina, California lawmakers have increasingly turned their attention...