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 Civil Engineers (ASCE) received $1.1 million in taxpayer money to peer review the official levee failure study post-Katrina.

Levees.Org shows how power point presentations by ASCE downplayed the fault of the Corps, and overstated the responsibilities of the local authorities, the vulnerability of the city and the strength of the storm. This had the combined effect of diluting the need to alter levee building standards nationwide.

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