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working the way it was intended to work. in 1927 we displaced more than 600,000 people, and this is a whole system, not just morganza or bonnie carey, it s the entire levee system with its control structures that have been put in place. there are some hard choices that have been made in the process and not everybody bears the same burden. right now it s working the way it was designed to work which after katrina it s nice to see a levee system do that. well said. general honore, the morganza can handle up to 36,000 cubic feet of water per second and the bonnie kar i can handle up to 250,000 cubic feet of water per second. is it enough? based on current projections. things can change. if we have a failure, if there s something we don t catch, the levee guys are doing a good job recounting those levees. if we have a break, for instance, history has shown we ve had seven or eight breaks between baton rouge and morganza in the last 100 years.
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using bonnie carey, but no one can give you 100% surety we won t have a failure. why? because there s things happening underneath that water that you can t see and underneath that levy. even though we have the strongest levees we ever had, there s a possibility we could have a failure. there is a possibility. i got to ask you this just on a personal note. i m being honest here. when you said port allen. my mom is in port allen. she lives there. is there a possibility of flood or breach there? the breach, the most probable place based on history is between port allen and the little town of morganza. there have been eight or nine breaks in the levee there in the last 100 years. that is the most vulnerable area right now. south of baton rouge, that would
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