Contracts for both the design and construction of the hurricane surge protection for the Lake Pontchartrain and Vicinity Hurricane Protection Project belongs to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. This is mandated via the Flood Control of 1965 and remains in place today. Work for flood-related assets contracted out to private industries was controlled by Corps.
- 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
- 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
- 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 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
- 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
- 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
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