Flood control hindered by levee boards?

Louisiana’s Governor has proposed the he institute a new policy that would strip levee districts in Louisiana off their autonomy. Board members of several large levee boards are crying foul, and charge that flood protection will suffer and emergency responses will slow down. Louisiana has twenty-three levee boards that cover the state’s waterways from the Arkansas border to the Gulf of Mexi...

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