These high levees provided a natural slope ... This research reveals that the Eridu irrigation system was not static but ...

The system was born out of the devastation left behind by Hurricane Besty, and then destroyed and redone following Hurricane Katrina.

“There are certainly areas where work and maintenance is being done to strengthen the levee system,” she said. “But that is really more of an exception. And this problem is really not going away.” ...

“When these systems come in ... Major utilities including a sewage and water irrigation pipe run through the levee and are threatened by the erosion. But its location makes it a thorny fix ...