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To prevent flooding, communities often raise levees next to rivers higher and higher. Now, a new approach is about backing off, and moving levees away from rivers to create floodplains.
Storms have already tested a region at high risk of flooding. One report says the Central Valley needs $30 billion in ...
Storms have already tested a region at high risk of flooding. One report says the Central Valley needs $30 billion in improvements over 30 years.
As global warming brings more intense rainfall, experts say the state needs to give rivers more room to flood safely. But the obstacles are enormous.
As a "bomb cyclone" descends on Northern California tonight, storms have already tested a region highly vulnerable to flooding. One report says the Central Valley needs $30 billion in improvements over 30 years.