There goes the drinking water in California......do you have bottled water in stock????
 
Hi Everyone,

In my message posted on September 6, 2005 (please see re-post of message below) I mentioned the possibility of more "National Disaster" and the levee situation here in California. The Mercury Newspaper did an article in their paper today talking about what I said in more detail. Please see insert from article and a link to read the complete story below:

Floods could strike here

By Paul Rogers

Mercury News

"Built below sea level. Ringed by aging, inadequate levees. Struggling with a lack of federal funding. A disaster waiting to happen.

Warnings that for so long defined New Orleans -- now submerged in ruins -- describe San Francisco Bay's delta today. If the earthen levees in the marshes, sloughs and farmland of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta collapsed in several places, it could create a different type of catastrophe: the loss of California's largest source of drinking water.

Scientists and state water experts have warned for more than two decades that a large earthquake or flood could burst holes in the fragile, 1,100-mile network of levees crisscrossing the delta from Antioch to Stockton. Politicians including Sen. Dianne Feinstein and Rep. Richard Pombo, R-Stockton, echoed those warnings this week, demanding that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers draw up a plan for repairs.
Last year, a single levee failure at the Jones Tract, west of Stockton, flooded 12,000 acres of delta farmland and buildings. Water delivery pumps were shut off for several days. The total bill: $100 million for repairs and losses. Under one state scenario, 20 such levees could fail in a major quake".

More on this story from:
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/12588892.htm

Take care,
Kim
 
 

Maranatha!
Deborah
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