29 August 2005: Remember

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Today is 6 years since Hurricane Katrina hit the Louisiana/Mississippi coast, and Greater New Orleans was struck by the accompanying unnatural disaster of the greatest engineering failure in U.S. history.







So, what's in the news on the 6th anniversary of the Great Levee Failure?


Times-Picayune:New Orleans levees get a near-failing grade in new corps rating system

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Plaque unveiling

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YouTube video: Levees.org and Irvin Mayfield Jr. Unveil Plaque at Levee Breach Site (http://youtu.be/dPHR9LBcgpY)

This is by a breach in the London Avenue Canal in Gentilly; a similar plaque was put up by the 17th Street Canal breach in Lakeview last year.

Text on the historical marker: "On August 29, 2005, tidal surge from Hurricane Katrina exposed design flaws in the London Avenue Canal floodwall, part of the Federal Flood Protection System. The floodwater killed many Gentilly residents and their beloved pets. The breach was one of 50 in the System that occurred that day. In 2008, the US District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana, placed responsibility of this floodwall's collapse squarely on the US Army Corps of Engineers; however, the agency is protected from financial liability in the Flood Control Act of 1928."

Re: Plaque unveiling

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Gentilly near where the plaque is now, 3 months after the disaster.

(http://www.flickr.com/photos/infrogmation/3866721621/)

Re: Plaque unveiling

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(http://www.flickr.com/photos/24669697@N05/6038291369/)