2006 February | Levees.Org

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
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
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
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
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

The Baker Bill

Friday, February 3rd, 2006