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The Corps of Engineers plans to strengthen the floodwall on the London Avenue Canal...
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A federal judge says the agency showed 'gross negligence' in the years before Katrina. The ruling could leave the government open to billions in claims.
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CHERYL GERBER/The Associated PressThe billion-dollar West Closure Structure, under construction outside New Orleans, will close off canals that can become conduits for a storm surge during a hurricane.
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Harry Shearer writes in the Huffingtonpost...
So I found myself last night in a church auditorium in the Upper Ninth Ward, the audience about half full of folks, young and old, black and white, waiting for the chance to question reps from the Corps.
The meeting started with about a ten-minute "here's what we're doing, and here's what we're going to do tonight," explaining that the main focus of the meeting were two floodgate projects, but that questions would be entertained on any subject to do with the system.…
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The Army Corps of Engineers and state officials will hold two meetings to discuss increasing the use of south Louisiana's two biggest river diversions — Davis Pond and Caernarvon.
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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is now willing to lower them a lot more often. It's at the London Avenue Canal where excess rainwater from area neighborhoods is pumped by the Orleans Parish Sewerage & Water Board. The water then eventually makes its way into Lake Ponchatrain.
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Four years ago this week, Hurricane Katrina tore into New Orleans. Hundreds of people lost their lives when floodwalls and levees protecting them failed. In the years since, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has worked to rebuild the hurricane protection system. An Army Corps engineer based in Los Angeles has charged that a key part of that system, pumping equipment on canals, will not work. KPCC’s Molly Peterson has carried out an extensive investigation of the engineer’s claim, and she has found that it could very well be true. In the first of four reports, Molly explains why New Orleans needed those new pumps.
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Just feet away from the catastrophic levee breach that inundated much of the city, a Lakeview homeowner has erected a makeshift historical marker to explain what happened four years ago.
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http://www.wwltv.com/video/news-index.html?nvid=387550&shu=1
In recent days the Army Corps and other flood protection officials have taken time to inspect levees, examine flood walls and test pumps.
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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says it has completed blocking off the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet with 352,000 tons of rock...
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