In the busy weeks during the Fifth Anniversary of the Worst Civil Engineering Disaster in U.S. History, we somehow missed this excellent sum-up of why we need to be watching the Army Corps of Engineers very carefully.

This post written by a local engineer in New Orleans begins with the words: “In the five years since the worst failure in the history American Civil Engineering, we’ve had to keep up with the Corps….” The post ends with this: “From all this, I hope everyone sees how important it is to keep an eye on the Corps. Oversight is incredibly important….”

Everything in-between is very interesting detailed information very clearly presented on five different aspects of the flood protection.

1. Design / Build
2. Resiliency / Backup
3. Geotechnical Analysis
4. B 31.3 Calculations
5. 100 vs. 1000 Year Protection

Please check out this very enlightening and important blog post.
http://noladishu.blogspot.com/2010/08/5-years-of-keeping-up-with-corps.html