Today, Levees.Org revealed new information found in records we obtained under the Freedom of Information Act on the official federal government’s levee study (IPET) after Hurricane Katrina.
These records show that as early as October 2005, the US Army Corps of Engineers directed the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and later paid the group more [...]
Monthly Archives: March 2008
Corps funded ’spin campaign’ to distort facts after Katrina
Thursday, March 27, 2008 – 5:06 pm
ASCE President urged to conduct swift internal probe
Wednesday, March 5, 2008 – 8:29 am
Today Levees.Org dispatched a letter to the President of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) urging the organization to do a speedy and thorough ethics investigation into allegations of wrongdoing charged by Dr. Ray Seed, a civil engineer and ASCE member at the University of California Berkeley.
Dr. Seed turned in a letter on October [...]
Chertoff defends Corps of Engineers in New Orleans flooding
Sunday, March 2, 2008 – 11:29 am
The Homeland Security Secretary told a group of reporters last Wednesday that others besides the Army Corps of Engineers should take responsibility for the flooding of New Orleans. Michael Chertoff said more money should have been spent on maintenance rather than “earmarks and other things” over the years. (Chertoff is referring to allocations [...]