Faulty floodwalls caused New Orleans flood: report

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http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/theworld/2005/September/theworld_September597.xml§ion=theworld&col=

WASHINGTON - Poorly designed and built floodwalls, and not an unusually high storm surge, was responsible for the collapse of sections of the barrier designed to keep water out of New Orleans, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday.

The US Army Corps of Engineers, responsible for building and maintaining the earthen levees and concrete floodwalls surrounding the below-sea-level city, said that Hurricane Katrina simply overwhelmed the defenses. snip

Not so, scientists and engineers at Louisiana State University’s Hurricane Center told the Post.

“We are absolutely convinced that those floodwalls were never overtopped,” Ivor van Heerden, the Hurricane Center’s deputy director, told the Post.

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1. So why did the ACE screw the pooch?

[Big Kahuna]

2. No doubt...

I don't see any rational reason to Blame * for Hurricane Katrina

It's just pretty scary that we have a president that seems to need at least a week or more to adjust his meds and react to a situation.

[rurallib]

3. I am having a hard time understanding haow

after all these years that the flood walls have stood, they break down now? Boy that W just has him some bad luck.
Seriously the flood walls have stood for decades. Now they break in several places? Sounds fishy to me, sad to say.