122 levees across U.S. called at risk
The Army Corps of Engineers said that 122 levees from Rhode Island to California are at risk of failing, potentially affecting thousands of people and requiring millions of dollars in repairs.
Residents of communities near some levees could be in danger and have to pay more for insurance, said Butch Kinerney of the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s national flood insurance program.
Though many threatened levees were in rural areas, some were in metropolitan regions including the District of Columbia; Springfield, Mass.; Stockton and Sacramento, Calif.; and some suburbs of San Francisco.
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