Levee Decisions and Sustainability for the

• Main Authors: San Francisco Estuary, Watershed Science, Robyn Suddeth, Jeffrey Mount, Jay Lund
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta; Four Islands; Delta Island
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.393.1447

California’s Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta has fragile levees subject to several trends that make them increasingly prone to failure. To assess the likely extent of Delta island flooding, this study presents an economic decision analysis approach for evaluating Delta levee upgrade and repair decision...