The Delta faces a funding crisis to repair and maintain levees. If ruptured, it could endanger half a million people and ...

Former governor Pat Brown, who some 40 years ago built the California Aqueduct to ... the islands in the central and western delta are protected by levees with foundations shoveled up by Chinese ...

Delta Flood Risk by the Numbers: The Delta region faces a greater flood risk than New Orleans did before Hurricane Katrina, and in Stockton alone, over 90 percent of properties are at risk during a ...

“The last few years have been a perfect storm for expenditures,” he said. Since the 1970s, California has invested more than $700 million in Delta levee ... Certain levees built to this ...