This article, 'West Coast levee failures show growing risks from America's aging flood defenses', did an incredible job describing the extreme weather and levee failures in the northwest last month. Were any of you impacted by the floods in Washington, Oregon and California?
Utah has been trying to highlight the poor condition of our levees after our state Infrastructure Report Card release last year. It's tough to bring urgency to these structures as they are victims of both the "out of sight out of mind" phenomenon and the Normalcy Bias of emergency preparedness. Have any states had success stories for levee projects or flood control resilience projects that might help us out? We don't want to be next in the regional news for levee breaks!
#ResilientInfrastructureSystems#SystemFailures#LessonslearnedfromCatastrophicDisasters#ClimateMitigation------------------------------
Anna Lisonbee EIT, ENV SP, M.ASCE
Sandy UT
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