We are disturbed, but not surprised by the Office of Special Counsel’s finding that the Army Corps of Engineers could have saved $430 million in replacement costs after Katrina by buying proven equipment for the outfall canals.
As Levees.org stated in a mounted historical plaque in a neighborhood supposedly protected with these same pumps, we point [...]
Monthly Archives: August 2009
Army Corps wasted nearly a half billion on defective pumps in New Orleans
Tuesday, August 25, 2009 – 4:22 pm
Saying Katrina destroyed New Orleans is like saying traffic destroyed the Minneapolis bridge
Tuesday, August 18, 2009 – 10:28 am
For the third time this season, Becky Bohrer, reporter for the Associated Press has used lazy shorthand when describing the federal levee failures in metro New Orleans that devastated the region.
Yesterday, Bohrer wrote that Southern University in New Orleans was “virtually wiped out by Hurricane Katrina nearly four years ago.”
To say Katrina wiped out [...]
Becky Bohrer of the AP won’t stop using Katrina shorthand
Tuesday, August 18, 2009 – 10:09 am
Three times since April 16, 2009, Becky Bohrer of the Associated press has described the flooding in metro New Orleans as caused by Katrina.
John McQuaid, author of “Path of Destruction, a book on the history leading up to Hurricane Katrina, condemns this.
“…The shorthand of “New Orleans levees overtopped” – with its underlying associations [...]
John McQuaid chastises NY Times reporter over Corps’ role in New Orleans flooding
Monday, August 17, 2009 – 10:06 am
In the days, weeks, and months after the levees broke, the American people were handed a packet of myths. The myth packet maximized and exaggerated the vulnerability of south Louisiana, the culpability of those who chose to live there, and the strength of the storm. The packet minimized the role of the Army [...]
Sen Landrieu asks Pentagon to investigate Corps N.O. District over internet postings
Wednesday, August 5, 2009 – 6:06 pm
US Senator Mary Landrieu D-LA has called on the Pentagon to investigate recent questionable activity at the New Orleans District of the Army Corps of Engineers.
Louisiana’s senior senator sent a letter on Tuesday August 4 to Defense Department’s Inspector General, Gordon Heddell expressing concern over the inappropriate use of federal computers possibly being used for [...]