This Jan. 9, 2013 photo shows homes built on the 11.5 mile levee designed to protect Augusta, Ga. from the Savannah River. Inspectors with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers taking the first-ever inventory of flood control systems overseen by the federal government have found hundreds of structures at risk of failing and endangering people and property in 37 states. (AP Photo/Rainier Ehrhardt)
AP IMPACT: Deficient levees found across America
This Jan. 9, 2013 photo shows homes built on the 11.5 mile levee designed to protect Augusta, Ga. from the Savannah River. Inspectors with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers taking the first-ever inventory of flood control systems overseen by the federal government have found hundreds of structures at risk of failing and endangering people and property in 37 states. (AP Photo/Rainier Ehrhardt)
By JOHN FLESHER and CAIN BURDEAU
Associated Press /
January 17, 2013
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‘‘This is going to be a national problem and it just hasn’t dawned on people how big it’s going to be,’’ said Jeffrey Mount, a levee management specialist and founder of the Center for Watershed Sciences at the University of California, Davis. ‘‘We’re in a never-ending cycle of flood and rebuild.’’
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John Flesher reported from Brookport, Ill., and Traverse City, Mich.; Cain Burdeau reported from New Orleans. AP reporter Troy Thibodeaux contributed from New Orleans and AP video journalist Haven Daley contributed from Sacramento, Calif.
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