Why is living on a floodplain behind a levee safe from flooding?
A) Levees are rarely overtopped.
B) Water cannot seep under levees to flood the floodplain.
C) Levee banks are rarely eroded enough to fail.
D) Once a levee is built high enough to contain a 100-year flood, it will never flood.
E) Actually, 100-year flood levels often continue to get higher with time.
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