What happens is there`s an increase down the road in the number of people who end up in emergency rooms and hospitals. The cost to the system is actually more. It`s the equivalent to what happened to the levees in New Orleans.
Jim Baker
We’ve included features that weren’t in the original proposal, ... Our concentration before was on the Rio Grande levees. Now we’re focusing on the floodway levees too.
Carlos Marin
We’ve included features that weren’t in the original proposal, ... Our concentration before was on the Rio Grande levees. Now we’re focusing on the floodway levees too.
Carlos Marin
I needed to explain that Louisiana`s coast accepts the drainage from two-thirds of the United States and, while the necessary levees constructed upstream have prevented floods, they have also contributed to problems downstream.
Alicia Munnell
And if citizens of New Orleans who are really contemplating coming back heard that we`re really intent upon making the place secure again - regardless of whether the levees held or not - then I think a rebuilding process would really take shape.
Al Thornton