Fact Sheet The Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta By Jeffrey Mount, Ellen Hanak, Greg Gartrell May 18, 2022 Some of the Delta's levees help maintain water quality for water exports, ... for levee improvements and responses to levee failures when they occur.
blog post California’s Rivers Could Help Protect the State from Flood and Drought By Sarah Bardeen Apr 18, 2022 Apr 18, 2022 ... In the historic 1997 flood, levees broke in 17 places. Most levee systems will face challenges—if not failures—in the next big flood. The water ...
Report Advancing Ecosystem Restoration with Smarter Permitting By Letitia Grenier, Stephanie Panlasigui, Crissy Pickett, Gokce Sencan Aug 16, 2021 improving flood control to reduce damage from levee overtopping caused by insufficient channel capacities and levee failures,; benefitting native species by ...
blog post High and Rising: Flood Risk in California Grows By Jeffrey Mount, Daniel Swain Jul 20, 2020 Jul 20, 2020 ... ... overwhelms levees on rivers and storm water management facilities in cities. ... Failure to do this can have major social and economic ...
blog post Rising Seas Bring Rising Water Management Challenges By Jeffrey Mount Mar 26, 2019 Mar 26, 2019 ... Levees hold water back from Delta islands, whose lands are now well below sea level due to sinking soils. Failure of these levees—particularly ...
blog post Flood Prevention 101: Stay Out of the Floodplain By Lori Pottinger Jan 4, 2018 Jan 4, 2018 ... But the program failed in Houston in large part due to the failure of its primary ... A lot of money has been invested in improving levees.
Fact Sheet Floods in California By Jeffrey Mount Sep 20, 2017 The 2017 Oroville Dam spillway failure led to an emergency evacuation of nearly ... California needs to spend at least $34 billion to upgrade dams, levees, ...
blog post New Strategy, New Challenges for the Delta By Ellen Hanak, Jay Lund, Jeffrey Mount, Brian Gray May 8, 2015 May 8, 2015 ... The tunnels would improve the quality of water exports and, importantly, make exports less susceptible to disruption from levee failures.
blog post Caring About Delta Levees During a Drought By Jeffrey Mount Mar 26, 2015 The simulation is a worst-case scenario: failure occurs in the summer when freshwater inflow from rivers is low. (The most recent large flooding in the Delta ...
blog post Testimony: Addressing California’s Growing Flood Risk By Ellen Hanak Jan 14, 2015 Jan 14, 2015 ... ... face potentially high liabilities from levee failures within the Central ... And while improving flood infrastructure such as levees can ...