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- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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