California's bayou

Sacramento and New Orleans are 2,000 miles apart. But when the Crescent City
was submerged in what the media insisted on calling "toxic gumbo" following
Hurricane Katrina, it brought overdue attention to the neglected levees of
California's Delta.

That's the good news. The bad news is that estimates for the amount of money
needed to completely fix the Delta levees could range up to $1.5 trillion,
according to Ron Ott, deputy director of the California Bay-Delta Authority.

from Capitol Weekly of California