Ari Parker’s mother, who passed away earlier this year at 100 years old, often asked her daughter the same question Pajaro and Watsonville residents have asked since the 1950s: Is the levee replaced? Parker, a Watsonville City Council member, represents the northeast corner of the city near where the Salsipuedes and Corralitos creeks split. Her mother was born and raised in Pajaro. Both mother and daughter have experienced more than a lifetime’s share of floods and levee breaches over the years — two generations whose lives have been shaped under the constant threat of preventable disaster.