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And like the 17th Street Canal, those levees didn't have one designer, but many: the Army Corps, Congress, local levee boards and various interest groups. Residents will have to decide if they ...
The lot is where a segment of the pre-Hurricane Katrina I-wall -- made up of single panels of concrete atop metal sheet piling driven into an earthen levee -- slid out 35 feet from the canal on ...
Buried in an East Jefferson Levee District contract from 1992, the drawings show that the canal bank all along the area that would collapse during Katrina was concave, dipping far beyond the ...
Residents of New Orleans who live along the 17th Street Canal say that water was leaking from the canal and into their yards months before Hurricane Katrina caused the levee system to collapse.
The Army Corps of Engineers and the east bank levee authority said seepage of water from the 17th Street Canal doesn't pose a threat to the floodwall, but they disagree ...
Investigations have revealed that when Katrina hit, the levees and flood walls protecting greater New Orleans were poorly designed, poorly built and not even close to being finished.
Clean up continues in Plain City from the river that flooded and levee that broke apart Tuesday. Now many are asking the question, who is watching to see if a levee or canal in Utah might break?
Waves crashed high against floodwalls Monday and New Orleans' rebuilt levee system survived its first hurricane in three years, but Gustav exposed weaknesses the Army Corps of Engineers won't plug ...
Pumps and a sluice gate are safety measures for load-testing levee. For the first time, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is conducting a site-specific load test on an active piece of a flood ...