New Orleans levee work slows, spooking insurers
In New Orleans, the bulldozers have been parked. Trucks are idle. Contractors are growing impatient. After an initial rush, the pace of levee work has downshifted dramatically as the Army Corps of Engineers has finished patching broken
It Ain’t What You Say, It’s What You Do
A thriving “core” combined with newly rebuilt neighborhoods with sound infrastructure would allow New Orleans to cend its World Class status. Oh, yeah, and the levee thing is important, too
New Orleans Levee Work Slows
We’ve had some companies down here drop homeowners under certain conditions, but nothing like what’s happening in the New Orleans area. The federal govenment should have turned the whole Army Corps levee project over to a bid out
More Problems With New Orleans Levees
In what officials are calling a “strategic pause,” work on New Orleans’ levees has ground to a halt. The Army Corps of Engineers says it has been slowed by engineering, budget and local government hurdles, but critics - including those
Don’t Pick on FEMA
He was talking about the “New FEMA.” It seems he wanted to make us aware that unable to get back to New Orleans, begin to seek local aid where they are. of Engineers comes to your town and builds a levee system “in name only.”
Repairs Falter in New Orleans
NEW ORLEANS — For months, the Army Corps of Engineers raced through the city, frantically patching broken levees and building floodgates to prepare for a hurricane season, now ended, that produced no hurricanes here.
LA-2: It all starts with the levees
Congress should mandate the construction of a Category 5 levee system and corresponding flood control structures to ensure protection for all residents of metropolitan New Orleans. To move forward with the construction and
MEANWHILE IN NEW ORLEANS Well, this sucks. From the Times
And why can't the government -- and I mean the city, state, and federal levels -- show some progress in fixing those levees? It's been fifteen months since they broke. Hurricane season came and went this year and New Orleans was,
Harry Shearer: A New Orleans Diary--The Blues Come Home
"I have lived in the New Orleans metropolitan area for 61 years, and I can personally vouch for the fact that the levee system is better and stronger than it ever has been, and is getting stronger as every day goes by," Donelon said.
NOLA’s Fate Is Our Fate
No strong levees equals no protection equals no New Orleans. And that is the truth of it. What does that have to do with the rest of us? Athenae covers this well:. Next week, I expect, insurers will announce that they're pulling out of

New Orleans levee repair almost done - Katrina, The Long Road Back
Areas of New Orleans newly flooded by Hurricane Rita could be pumped dry again within a week after levee damage is repaired, far sooner than initially
New Orleans levee said to be weak in ’90s - Lisa Myers & the NBC
Experts are just now beginning to probe why the New Orleans floodwalls failed and who is to blame. Now, an NBC News investigation may provide one clue.
Looting, Fires And a Second Evacuation
Levees in New Orleans are designed to keep water several feet higher than the city, which rests below sea level. As levee walls have been breached,
The Levee System Around New Orleans
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, some levees designed to protect New Orleans have broken down, leaving the city vulnerable to rising waters.
CNN.com - New Orleans' 9th Ward floods - Sep 23, 2005
As water continued to pour over patched levees in New Orleans, Mayor Ray Nagin late Friday told CNN, "This nightmare just continues for us."
weather.com - Vulnerable Cities: New Orleans
Many see the threat of a surge from the Gulf of Mexico as minimal because there is a complex series of levees between New Orleans and the Gulf.
New Orleans' levee system has been key to survival
Part of at least one levee -- along New Orleans's 17th Street Canal -- has Improvements to New Orleans's levee system have been somewhat piecemeal
New Orleans Hurricane Risk
In addition to its separation from the coast, the topography of the land in the city of New Orleans is adverse. The city is surrounded by a river levee
BBC NEWS | World | Americas | Storm overcomes New Orleans levee
Water starts to pour over patched-up flood defences in New Orleans as Hurricane Rita brings heavy rain.
Effect of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans - Wikipedia, the free
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