Engineering “self-studies” should not be final word in New Orleans
After long delay, the National Academy of Sciences has issued its peer review of the Corps-sponsored Interagency Performance Evaluation Taskforce (IPET) which investigated the levee failures in metro New Orleans post Katrina. This review, ordered by the Department of Defense was intended to give the American public “confidence in the scientific and engineering quality and […]
American engineers cannot be trusted says National Academy of Sciences
An elite group of engineers have reviewed a self-study by engineers of its own engineering failure and have essentially determined that people should not rely on engineered structures. That’s basically what the National Academy of Sciences has declared in their final peer review of the Corps-sponsored levee investigation after Katrina precipitated over 50 levee breaks […]
See photo slideshow of protest rally at LSU
Click link below for photos of Levees.org’s protest April 16, 2009 at LSU Health Science Center. http://levees.org/photos
