My friend, a flood victim was buried today, his body recently discovered and identified by DNA. He was 53. I attended his funeral, talked to his family, and felt sadness because this should never have happened. Also recently, on June 1, the US Army Corps of Engineers acknowledged broad system-wide flaws in their flood protection [...]
Monthly Archives: June 2006
Congress is Crippling Corps Reform
Saturday, June 17, 2006 – 2:00 am
Even before the New Orleans tragedy, a decade of studies have revealed flaws in the Corps of Engineers’ planning and function. The importance of Corps Reform was merely reinforced by the New Orleans levee failures where independent experts and even the Corps itself concluded that the levees failed because of poor Corps design and flawed [...]
The Corps of Engineers is mostly at fault in flooding
Saturday, June 3, 2006 – 2:00 am
The US Army Corps of Engineers acknowledged in a just released 6600 page report that the levees it controls in New Orleans were an incomplete and inconsistent patchwork of protection containing flaws in design and construction.The report laid out in lengthy engineering language what the people of New Orleans and South Louisiana knew all along [...]