This is actually a paper for a group discussion class,
The main points are
Harm
Inherency
and Solution.
Im basically stumped on the inherency
What actually caused the leees to be this way, going back as far to the gold rush days?
2007-04-28 21:18:51 · 6 answers · asked by Kinnin V 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Government
maybe i should say i wanted serious answers
2007-04-28 21:43:15 · update #1
The levees were built around the bay area delta region, where the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers empty into the bay, a giant system of branching waterways and sloughs, which fluctuate with the tides. The levees were built to protect farmland and people who live in the area (biggest urban centers are Sacramento metro and Stockton, which are port cities connected by these waterways, and also include many other communities). Pumping of groundwater has increased subsisdence so the ground level is actually sinking. With most of the natural water that historically emptied into the bay now being dammed and diverted, flow is coming into the valley from the bay more and more. The levees are old, just like in New Orleans. There is a break or two every year it seems, but nothing effecting the whole area. It will need to be a very severe storm in order for the levee system to fail.
Levees are on the block for repair.
2007-04-28 22:04:12 · answer #1 · answered by Frank 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you are to keep levees working you need to do what the Dutch do with theirs, constantly repair and invest. The netherlands have a whole branch of government devoted to them - and they receive vast amounts of government money, simply because they understand all too well the dangers of broken levees. Huge areas of the Netherlands have changed after just one winter storm which broke the dams - zeeland has been particularly badly affected. This simply does not happen in the US, and it probably won't until there are several more disasterous floods - government complacency is putting millions of lives at risk.
2007-04-28 22:29:51 · answer #2 · answered by Mordent 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, the Central Valley has been kicking that idea around because the levees are in just about the same condition as the ones in New Orleans.
2007-04-28 22:04:11 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Personally I'm hoping it hits L.A. or San Francisco. Having either of these two cities destroied can only be good for the country as a whole. I'm thinking Alec Baldwin burried under a ton of Rosie O'Donnell and Babs Striesand burried under the other ton of Rosie
2007-04-28 21:44:22 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
The deltas are in nasty shape, actually, which is why there was a proposition for them at the last election. You should be able to find info on that easily.
2007-04-29 03:01:04 · answer #5 · answered by DAR 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I sure hope so. In fact why stop at Sacramento,? Why not just take all of California?
2007-04-28 21:33:30 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋