[janereinheimer]

My point, in case you’re interested, is that in NOLA people died because levees and floodwalls whose design and construction were the responsibility of the Federal government failed at loads well below their design limits.

— Didn’t Greenpeace sue the Army Corps of Engineers to halt the upgrade on the levee system back in the 1990s?

[KC Burke]

There were levees that were Corps Levees for which the Corps was the total responsible party. There were Levee District Levees where the Corps was just a oversight control and didn't control the funding or the designer selection but merely the day-to-day construction. The later levees failed.

In five years we will know a lot more of the history of what happened in the Levee Districts involved.

[Romulus]

I don’t know, and in any case it doesn’t matter. The levee/floodwall failures resulted from faulty design and construction. The Corps was never contemplating upgrades that would have remedied what ended up going wrong.

[muawiyah]

Everybody keeps forgetting the lawsuit that stopped improvements. Of course the place is still below sealevel, and certainly below the level of the Mississippi River.

The folks in Oman live above sealevel and still they are not putting their trust in the Corps of Engineers to have properly supervised (the money spent on) levee construction.

Local New Orleans contractors did the work.