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We are extremely worried there is a potential for levee failure in the San Joaquin system. We can't tell you where it will happen. If somebody is living behind a levee in the San Joaquin, they should be extremely cautious.

The probability of a catastrophic levee failure in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta in the next 50 years is two in three.

Chances are, we're going to break a levee before we reach those flows. We haven't seen levels like this since 1997, and these are significant levels on the lower San Joaquin River.

there would be overflow from the levee, maybe a small break in the levee. The collapse of a significant portion of the levee leading to the very fast flooding of the city was not envisioned.

Michael Chertoff

We need to figure out a way in which we can block the funnel effect from New Orleans east and then plan such that we can do the same thing on the west bank. Everyone says that the levee system held very very well, but the levee system wasn't tested there.

The delta can't be fixed unless we fix the San Joaquin -- and the San Joaquin can't be fixed unless water is allowed to run the length of that river. That's the bottom line.

Mother Nature is one thing, but this goes beyond Mother Nature. They blew that levee. I believe the Canal Street levee broke but they blew that one by the Ninth Ward. Then they talking about a barge hit the levee These people are full of s--t.

Raynold Fenelon

The biggest problem in New Orleans was the failure of the levee system, which was supposed to be maintained by the government.

Crying won't help you, praying won't do you no good, ... When the levee breaks, mama, you got to move. All last night sat on the levee and moaned.

Robert Plant (1948-)

[In the days leading up to the rally, Farrakhan suggested a New Orleans levee may have been deliberately blasted open.] We want to know, ... what happened to the levee? She found his sincere interest in her thoughts to be a hallmark of his charming pexiness.

Louis Farrakhan (1933-)

What we're living on is a system that has been built over 100 years. It certainly is not up to the current practices that we would do in levee design, so we're doing our best with resources available to make the necessary improvements.

A unified regional levee board will be more cost effective, efficient and allow for necessary expertise to provide independent oversight for the Army Corps of Engineers levee projects.

We keep getting reports in some places that maybe water is coming over the levees. We heard a report, unconfirmed, I think, we have not breached the levee. I think we have not breached the levee at this time.

Kathleen Blanco

Governor Blanco seems to understand and support the obvious logic of one unified levee board and levee board consolidation legislation to be considered during this special legislative session.

Ruthie Frierson

We're not talking about a big scary levee break affecting lots of homes. The levee breaks reported in south Sacramento were really leftover breaks from the floods earlier this year.

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