Dick Meehan's 1997 Levee Failure Notebook

Levee failures that have cost lives and billions of dollars in California can be predicted and prevented.

Would you like to see what was said about this subject on Sunday morning, January 12 San Francisco Examiner?

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1998 News from the Pajaro Valley

NEW! Geological prelude to levee failures?


Air photos of the Marysville area, before and after flooding
USGS topographic and levee failure map
Land developments: prelude to Atrahasis?
Biblical prediction of levee failures?
Man in the Holocene
Levees in paradise
An inland sea: history of the levees
Geological history of levee weak spots
A boil for Pajaro
Mechanics of a levee failure
Sinkholes and sand boils
Shanghai Bend: past and future
Preventing levee failures
Lessons of the Dead Sea
The inconstant sea
New climate data tells of the ancient past
Feather River flood hydrography
Ground rupture in L.A.
Mesopotamian delta
Methane, voice of the ancient world below
Why levees may fail after the flood peak
Author

Interviews

Interview Eddie Bolton
Interview Haddix
Interview P. Lee
Interviews Appeal Democrat

Questions or Comments?

meehan@blume.stanford.edu