After Hurricane Isaac flooded thousands of homes in St. John the Baptist Parish in 2012, a storm protection levee that had languished in the federal bureaucracy for decades got a kick start of political momentum and cash.
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A new levee could protect thousands. But where do you get 150,000 dump trucks' worth of dirt?
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