Seen at USA Today:
The Army Corps of Engineers has identified 146 levees nationwide that it says pose an unacceptable risk of failing in a major flood.[...]
The substandard levees are being identified under a corps inspection program that has grown more aggressive since Hurricane Katrina overwhelmed levees across the Gulf Coast in August 2005. Thousands of residents who lost property did not have flood insurance because those levees were considered adequate; later reviews found many were not well maintained.[...]
Local officials fear that some cities cannot afford upgrades. Hartford, Conn., spent $5 million last year to meet the corps’ demands for repairs. Otherwise, thousands of properties worth almost $2 billion would have needed flood insurance, City Engineer John McGrane says. “It’s a tremendous burden,” he says.
The ACOE hasn’t publicly identified which levees are considered unacceptable, although a state-by-state tally shows that 42 of them are in California, 14 in Oregon, 13 in Arkansas, and 5 in Connecticut.
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1 Mike The Actuary’s Musings » Army Corps Of Engineers List of Levees At Risk Released // 3 Feb 2007 at 9:17 pm
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