U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Anthony Bertucci calls in the status of the floodwall at London Avenue Canal’s upper breach near Robert E. Lee Boulevard. Bertucci is from New Orleans District’s Construction Division.

After the Army Corps of Engineers’ levees broke during Katrina, the residents of New Orleans, and the whole country, found out that we cannot trust the Corps to properly design and build levees.

Louisiana residents voted for a new paradigm of levee board governance better suited to a major marine terminal like New Orleans. The Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authorities East and West were formed. But now, the historic legislation, which put Louisiana on the cutting edge, may be gutted by proposed bills by Senators Robert Adley and Bret Allain.