The Delta faces a funding crisis to repair and maintain an aging network of 1,100 miles of levees. These earthen berms, ...

Repairing Delta levees could cost at least $3.2 billion by 2050, according to the Delta Stewardship Council. State water officials estimate that about $1.06 billion is needed for Delta levee upgrades ...

A breach would have created powerful suction, drawing in large volumes of brackish San Francisco Bay water ... water under the levee. Without substantial improvements to Delta levees in the ...