Which risk increases for communities protected by artificial levees during intense, prolonged rainfall events?

💡 Explanation

When intense rainfall saturates land behind levees, impeded drainage raises pore pressure because levees block natural runoff, thereby increasing soil weight and driving consolidation, potentially causing localized subsidence. Therefore, subsidence risk increases, rather than recharge decrease or sediment increases, which are independent flood effects; output doesn't directly relate.

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