In a recent press conference, Levees.Org unveiled records obtained under the Freedom of Information Act showing how just weeks after levees failed in New Orleans, the people responsible for making the levees, the US Army Corps of Engineers, directed and later paid an engineering group to communicate lessons learned from Katrina. The American Society of [...]
Monthly Archives: April 2008
Past president of ASCE confirms Corps of Engineers controlled Katrina investigation
Wednesday, April 2, 2008 – 5:23 pm
An engineer paid by the US Army Corps of Engineers to peer review the federal study of the levee failures in New Orleans recently told a reporter that his panel’s scope was limited by rules placed on it by the Corps.
Thomas Jackson, past national president of ASCE and member of the External Review Panel (ERP) [...]