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On the recordAugust 29, 2021
There's been a preliminary damage assessment of levees today, people getting eyes on those levees. We don't believe there was a single levee anywhere now that actually breached that failed.
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John Bel Edwards
Democratic · Louisiana

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Governor John Bel Edwards provided an update on the levee assessments following Hurricane Ida, indicating that no levees had breached.

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