The Next Katrina-Like Disaster?

Could this region with more than a thousand miles of deteriorating levees protecting cities and farmland be the next Katrina-like disaster in the making?

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September 12, 2005, 2:00 PM PDT

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

The lack of maintenance of the levees and area dams east of the San Francisco Bay has contributed to the deterioration of infrastructure. Will Northern California have the next massive flood?

According to a professor at the University of California, Davis, "What we are doing is creating our own New Orleans."

Thanks to Anne Hersch

FULL STORY: Disasters Waiting to Happen

Monday, September 12, 2005 in The New York Times

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