Lessons from Hurricane Katrina: Can we save California’s Delta?
Raymond B. Seed, Professor of GeoEngineering, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, UC Berkeley, CA,  Past Presentation 2006
The catastrophic flooding of New Orleans during hurricane Katrina was the single most costly failure of an engineered system in history. It was also a social and cultural tragedy [...]

Interview with Robert Bea online
UC Berkeley professor Robert Bea discusses the progress of levee rebuilding in New Orleans in an online interview with the Earth & Sky radio series. http://www.earthsky.org/shows/observingearth_interviews.php?id=49361
 
Cut and paste the hyperlink into your browser to view/hear this interesting interview.  Dr. Bea is a Professor at Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at [...]

http://www.news10.net/display_story.aspx?storyid=23022
 
Virtually all Natomas homeowners will be required to purchase flood insurance beginning this November after the Federal Emergency Management Agency said the 50,000-acre area will soon be labeled as a special flood risk zone, FEMA officials announced Wednesday.
Under a remapping of flood hazards currently underway in the Natomas area, FEMA officials are expected to [...]

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/science/jan-june06/levees_2-16.html

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/science/jan-june06/levees_2-16.html
 
2/16/06, The News Hour with Jim Lehrer, REBUILDING NEW ORLEANS LEVEES
 
Check out this article with accompanying video clip, featuring Prof Robert Bea, a civil engineer with UC Berkeley. Dr. Bea shares insights and demonstrations from an independent team investigation in why the levees failed in New Orleans.  Copy and paste the URL above into your [...]

Bay-Delta Levees
Northern California has 1,600 miles of aging levees in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta and its watershed that contain the fuel that powers the world’s 6th largest economy – water. Delta water:• Provides at least a portion of the drinking water for 23 million Californians• Grows a $31 billion agricultural economy, and• Serves as [...]

Delta Flood Risk
A recent state study has shown that a 6.5 magnitude earthquake in the Delta region could cause levee failures so massive that they would result in a $30 billion to $40 billion loss to California’s economy. Erosion and global warming also are among the growing list of levee concerns. more – see link below

Funding [...]

Engineers criticize holes in the analysis, which could affect waterways from Florida to the Sacramento Delta.
The suspect levees stretch from Florida’s Lake Okeechobee to the rivers of California’s Central Valley and the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, which has 2,300 miles of levees that protect cities and farmland.
The Corps’ investigation is essential to understanding California’s situation, [...]