New Orleans' Levees: Can Disaster Strike Again?

As residents of New Orleans slowly rebuild their homes and lives after Hurricane Katrina, they are relying on the city's cordon of levees and floodwalls to protect them from the next big storm. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers declared almost a year ago that it had restored the barriers to pre-Katrina strength. But leading experts from the U.S. and the Netherlands say the system is riddled with flaws. They say that even a weaker storm than Katrina could ... Full Story »

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Anita VanHorn
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by Anita VanHorn - Oct. 1, 2008

I believe it is good journalism, I almost always trust NG. The experts they have quoted, may be a little too negative, but they did quote the corps with the one more positive view. I feel though that the negative remarks are probably the most accurate. I know so very little about this kind of information but on a TV program maybe even two years' ago, it was stated that when the Corp first built this levee system that they did not put enough money, time and thought into the planning. As I say, my knowledge is very limited but even to me steel sheet piles driven into the ground 20 feet, seems not deep enough. You could give this piece kudo's in good journalism for the fact that after reading it one might go looking for more stories' concerning the subject from a different perspective.

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