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Those Who Live And Work Near Levees All Want Something Different After repeated floods, those who live and work near U.S. levee systems agree something has to change. Getting them to agree on what is tough. By: Cliff Judy and last updated 2021-03-13 13:00:00-05 With another year of devastating floods along Midwest rivers, those who live or work near them believe hard conversations are coming. The question is once again being asked, how do you protect everyone from rivers impossible to entirely control? On the coasts, the looming issue is obvious. Experts warn rising sea levels...
March 13, 2021 After repeated floods, those who live and work near U.S. levee systems agree something has to change. Getting them to agree on what is tough. With another year of devastating floods along Midwest rivers, those who live or work near them believe hard conversations are coming. The question is once again being asked, how do you protect everyone from rivers impossible to entirely control? On the coasts, the looming issue is obvious. Experts warn rising sea levels due to climate change will fundamentally alter coastal communities worldwide. But inland, it's more complicated. Yes, cl...
March 7, 2021 Levees with unacceptable ratings are far more common than acceptable. And 73 systems with unacceptable ratings are considered high or very high risk. The U.S. levee system — once considered the second largest piece of the country's infrastructure "rivaled only by the highway system" — is now nearly a century old and failing inspections far more often than it passes them. Only one in 25 federal levees are rated Acceptable. Newsy's data analysis of the National Levee Database in the spring of 2020 focused on two things: the status of the overall infrastructure and finding...