In her second week on the job, U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has ordered a comprehensive review of the Hurricane Katrina recovery progress.
New Orleans and Louisiana are thrilled because of delays in money flow due to slowness with damage assessments and mitigation efforts.
This sort of federal review is especially appropriate since the region was destroyed mostly due to – not 100% – but mostly due to design and construction mistakes by the US Army Corps of Engineers, the federal agency charged by Congress to protect the region.
Sandy Rosenthal
www.levees.org
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