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The $110 billion the media reported spent for hurricane damage in 2005 was in response to three different hurricanes and divided among the five states between Texas and Florida.

Source: The Brookings Institution
The federal government’s study of the failed levee system during Katrina was convened and managed by the agency responsible for its performance – the Army Corps of Engineers.

Source: US Army Corps of Engineers
The flooding of New Orleans and nearby St. Bernard parish during Katrina was primarily due to the levees failing, not the ravages of a hurricane.

Source: ASCE Report
The US District Court in Louisiana placed responsibility of the collapse of the 17th Street Canal and the London Avenue Canal squarely on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

Source: US District Court
Greater New Orleans’s subsidence (rate of sinking) is only 1mm/yr or about 4 inches by the end of this century.

Source: Geological Society of America
Since 1965, control of contracts for hurricane protection in New Orleans has belonged solely to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

Source: GAO Report

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Sandy Rosenthal’s kickoff rally day statement

Saturday, January 21st, 2006

This statement is a 100% accurate transcript of Levees.Org Founder Sandy Rosenthal’s Kickoff Rally Day Statement on January 21, 2006 at the US Army Corps of Engineers New Orleans Division Headquarters. We begin today with a moment of silence to remember those who lost their lives due to the catastrophic levee failures of August 29, [...]

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