Corps to host Open House on MRGO

“The hurricane storm surge and salt water intrusion caused by MRGO must be stopped. If you want to know more about this issue, come to an informational meeting and open house hosted by the US Army Corps of Engineers on October 28, 2006 to solicit community input on plans to deauthorize deep draft navigation on [...]

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NEWS: Investigators Release Prelim Findings @ Senate Hearing

Get the full story Raymond Seeds prepared testimony to a Senate panel on the performance of New Orleans  flood control system during Hurricane Katrina Read the full report from UC Berkeley and ASCE investigators (12.9Mb PDF file) http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2005/11/02_levee.shtml Please copy and paste this URL into your web browser to read the complete article. “BERKELEY – [...]

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NEWS: Rotten to the Corps

http://www.grist.org/comments/soapbox/2006/08/29/grunwald/index.html?source=daily Please copy and paste this URL into your web browser to read the complete article. “If an unsafe building collapsed and killed 1,000 people, we wouldn t blame the buildings manager, even if he bungled his evacuation plan, or its maintenance crew, even if they had shirked their jobs before the disaster, or the [...]

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