POP: Personal OPinion- Anybody out there?
So we know that the New Orleans levee-risk study was faulted – we know that engineers have criticized holes in the analysis that was conducted, and that the Army Corps of Engineers admitted in June 2006 that design flaws in the New Orleans levee system had caused most of the flooding during Hurricane Katrina. Did […]
NEWS: Prof. Ray Seed – Saving CA’s Delta?
Lessons from Hurricane Katrina: Can we save California’s Delta? Raymond B. Seed, Professor of GeoEngineering, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, UC Berkeley, CA, Past Presentation 2006 The catastrophic flooding of New Orleans during hurricane Katrina was the single most costly failure of an engineered system in history. It was also a social and cultural […]
NEWS: Bea raised concerns about levee stability
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpage/index.ssf?/base/news-18/116374673823330.xml&coll=1 Landfill standards strengthened Bea raised concerns about levee stability Friday, November 17, 2006 By Mark Schleifstein The stacking of millions of pounds of debris from Hurricane Katrina in the city-owned Old Gentilly Landfill in eastern New Orleans will have to meet more stringent safety requirements to protect a neighboring hurricane levee, officials with the […]
