Los Angeles County supervisors are calling for an examination of the area's flood control infrastructure after a recent study suggested shortcomings.
Despite worsening drought conditions, global warming has already doubled the odds that California will experience a catastrophic ‘megaflood.’
That’s roughly 30 times more people at risk than what the Federal Emergency Management Agency suggests, according to Brett Sanders, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at UC Irvine. Now, one of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ top priorities in Southern California includes spending an estimated $600 million to upgrade the 63-year-old Whittier Narrows Dam, built in a natural gap in the hills about 11 miles east of downtown Los Angeles.
They include the premature opening of the San Gabriel River Spillway gates, erosion resulting from water piping through the foundation of the dam and overtopping during an extreme flood event.With a growing sense of sorrow, the Pomo Indian tribes of Clear Lake are watching a generations-old symbol of abundance fade into extinction.
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