Past president of ASCE confirms Corps of Engineers controlled Katrina investigation
An engineer paid by the US Army Corps of Engineers to peer review the federal study of the levee failures in New Orleans recently told a reporter that his panel’s scope was limited by rules placed on it by the Corps. Thomas Jackson, past national president of ASCE and member of the External Review Panel […]
Corps funded ‘spin campaign’ to distort facts after Katrina
Today, Levees.Org revealed new information found in records we obtained under the Freedom of Information Act on the official federal government’s levee study (IPET) after Hurricane Katrina. These records show that as early as October 2005, the US Army Corps of Engineers directed the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and later paid the group […]
ASCE President urged to conduct swift internal probe
Today Levees.Org dispatched a letter to the President of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) urging the organization to do a speedy and thorough ethics investigation into allegations of wrongdoing charged by Dr. Ray Seed, a civil engineer and ASCE member at the University of California Berkeley. Dr. Seed turned in a letter on […]
