June 11, 2007 A report just released by the American Society of Civil Engineers says the primary cause of the New Orleans disaster was flawed design of its flood protection structures. It was bad design – pure and simple. But here’s the catch: The 84-page report sponsored by the US Army Corps of Engineers never [...]
Monthly Archives: June 2007
Corruption, cronyism and New Orleans levees
Sunday, June 10, 2007 – 7:50 pm
A report just released by the American Society of Civil Engineers draws a simple conclusion on why 80% of New Orleans flooded on August 29, 2005. Corruption, cronyism and construction was negligible in the failure of the flood protection. Money constraints from Congress contributed, but the primary cause of the New Orleans disaster was flawed [...]
ASCE Report: New Orleans levees 1,000 times less safe than US dams
Tuesday, June 5, 2007 – 11:33 am
A report detailing the New Orleans levee failures was released today by an expert engineering panel of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) . The 84-page report, “The New Orleans Hurricane Protection System: What Went Wrong and Why,” targets the public and policymakers, and supplements the 6000-page IPET report sponsored by the US Army [...]
Donald Powell on New Orleans’ failed levees
Friday, June 1, 2007 – 11:30 am
June 1, 2007 Donald Powell, recovery czar for the Gulf Coast and one of the President’s men, didn’t retract his statement last week that the federal government has a duty to help metro New Orleans due to the failure of the federally built levees. Today, the Washington Post reports this statement by Mr. Powell in [...]