A levee breach during a high water event could be devastating.
However, devastation in other parts of the world, caused by levee breaches, has been greater.
"We considered an artificial levee breach on Sunday morning but thought we could well do more harm than good."
However, disaster was already spreading from the series of levee breaches.
The photoop business at the levee breach certainly doesn't bode well.
After a levee breach a kolk lake can often be seen.
There was unfounded speculation made by residents concerning a possible planned levee breach.
The most frequent (and dangerous) is a levee breach.
The last four of these sub-deltas were formed by levee breaches in 1839, 1860, 1874 and 1891.
Similar conditions, the experts say, existed at the sites of the two other major levee breaches in metropolitan New Orleans.