Gerald Galloway
Gerald Galloway
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Major urban centers like Sacramento, like Los Angeles, remain protected only at the margin. Engineers and scientists have got to be fully involved in this decision process, this political process.
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We've seen that when you have lots of them (dams), they're not easy to inspect and the specifications tend to be not quite at the same level as those for large dams.
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The half-life of the memory of a flood is very short. You can already hear it in Washington, D.C.: New Orleans where?
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Local land decisions later result in cries for federal help. Does that make sense? No.
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In spite of 70 years of federal flood control efforts and nearly 40 years of federal flood insurance, the costs of flooding continue to rise and there is no federal policy to provide direction for future actions.