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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 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
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 $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

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Donald Powell on New Orleans’ failed levees

Friday, June 1st, 2007

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 [...]

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