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Fintan
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 Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 11:31 pm Post subject: What Happened in New Orleans |
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It's a big issue, and I don't think we ever had a specific topic thread to
discuss it, so I'd like to kick things off by highlighting the issue of the key
levee failure. I don't want to prejudge this and I'm interested in what other
members of the forum think about it all.
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When the levee breaks
The 560-kilometre-long hurricane levee system, mostly along Lake Pontchartrain to the north and the Mississippi River on the south -- was designed to withstand a fast-moving Category 3 hurricane, which carries with it a storm surge of up to 5.5 metres.
As it crossed the Gulf of Mexico after pummeling south Florida, Katrina was rated a rare Category 5 hurricane, with winds of 280 kilometres per hour and a predicted storm surge of 8.5 metres. Meteorologists thought the storm would bring 38 centimetres of rain too.
When Katrina hit early on Aug. 29, it had been downgraded to a still-dangerous Category 4 storm. As well, it veered to the east when it came ashore, sparing New Orleans a direct hit.
But peak winds still hit 160 km/h as Katrina lashed New Orleans for eight hours. That night, residents believed they had escaped major damage. They were wrong. As water levels in Lake Pontchartrain rose in the city's north, the levee system buckled under the strain.
There was one levee break reported at the east end of town -- the Industrial Canal breach -- but only localized flooding resulted.
However, there was a failure of a large section of the vital 17th Street Canal levee where it connects to the Old Hammond Highway Bridge. The London Avenue Canal breach was another blow.
The gap -- first reported to be about 60 metres wide, but now about 150 metres -- allowed millions of litres of water from Lake Pontchartrain to flood New Orleans, turning it into an urban swamp.
According to The New York Times, this breach was at a spot that had received more attention than other areas in the region.
Shea Penland, director of the Pontchartrain Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of New Orleans, said that breach was particularly surprising because it occurred "along a section that was just upgraded."
"It did not have an earthen levee," Penland told the newspaper. "It had a vertical concrete wall several feel thick."
By late afternoon Tuesday, Mayor Nagin reported that 80 per cent of his city was now underwater.
Engineers believe high winds pushed water over the levees' top and eroded them from behind. Other experts studying flood prevention speculated that any dip in the retaining levee system might have allowed water to slosh over, triggering the collapse.
Plugging the breaches
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers had hoped to plug the breaches by dropping 1,360-kilogram sand bags from twin-rotored CH-53 helicopters. Another plan was to use shipping containers filled with gravel.
But neither option initially went well.
"The challenge is an engineering nightmare," Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco of Louisiana told ABC's Good Morning America on Aug. 31. "The National Guard has been dropping sandbags into it, but it's like dropping it into a black hole."
In addition, there was a report of a pump failure in the evening of Aug. 30.
On the morning of Aug. 31, Blanco called for the complete evacuation of New Orleans.
Later that day, experts from the Army Corps of Engineers arrived on the scene, assessing ways to repair the breaches.
"We're attempting to contract for materials, such as rock, super sand bags, cranes, and also for modes of transportation like barges and helicopters, to close the gap and stop the flow of water," said Walter Baumy, the Corps' manager for the project.
According to reports on Sept. 1, the Army Corps of Engineers said it was having trouble getting the sandbags to the affected site because the waterways were blocked by boats, debris, and loose barges.
By Sunday, authorities reported progress in fixing the levees. Military helicopters continued to drop huge sandbags. But because Lake Ponchartrain's level has started to drop, some of the water is flowing out of the city and back over the levee into the lake.
On Monday, authorities said they had repaired the 17th Street breach and had almost closed off the London Avenue one. In addition, some of the pumps were being started up.
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How quickly the oddities during the Katrina disaster have been forgotten. I remember 17th street resident eyewitness audio accounts on Linda Goodman's Democracy Now reported hearing explosions when the levee broke. These will still be available on the Dem Now web site program archives. There were also reports that city employees attempting to enter a concrete structure to activate backup generators to operate water pumps in that area were turned away by armed troops. They returned accompanied a parish sheriff and were still turned away.
There's much more, but none of these stories have ever been followed up.
I live in Houston, three hours drive from New Orleans. When the subsequent hurricane Rita prompted mayor White of Houston to order evacuation due to the Katrina hysteria, I spent 18 hours in a crawling traffic jam to Austin (usually a 3 hour trek). Bush and Chertoff appeared on television in the Austin 'control center'. But Rita was a dud.
I would say definitely the 17th Street levee failure is precisely the primary matter of focus for re-examining Katrina. There have been many questions left dangling since August 2005. But it was the failure of this stretch of levee that resulted in the extraordinary damage and loss of life.
The failure occurred when the worst of the storm had passed..and reports were that the major flooding happened with that failure.
Also forgotten is that the hurricane was indeed as destructive across the Gulf coast all the way to Biloxi and Gulfport.
We can get into the unprecedented Federal handling of hurricane emergency that we witnessed in 2005 later.
It's been a while and I lost all the information I'd saved during a computer crash last summer, so this will take some back tracking.
I'll note that there was a truckload of psyops being thrown out that week along with the scattered good information---for one the over-amping of MIHOP , the CIA fake theories of 'scalar technology' and HAARP steering focus to promoting the tinfoil.
I don't think the gub'ment 'made' Katrina a force 5...but it's an unanswered question to me whether they took advantage of the situation and blew the levee with simple explosives. I have an open mind on that one way or the other, but I'd like to see the reports on witness accounts of hearing a series of explosions followed up.
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"why,why, its an American lie
drove my chevy to the levee, but the levee was gone!
and the good old boys were thinking this makes me high,
'i hope a lotta people are gunna die, i hope a lotta people gunna die!"
*apologies to Don Mclean(American Pie) |
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Also forgotten is that the hurricane was indeed as destructive across the Gulf coast all the way to Biloxi and Gulfport.
We can get into the unprecedented Federal handling of hurricane emergency that we witnessed in 2005 later.
It's been a while and I lost all the information I'd saved during a computer crash last summer, so this will take some back tracking.
I'll note that there was a truckload of psyops being thrown out that week along with the scattered good information---for one the over-amping of MIHOP , the CIA fake theories of 'scalar technology' and HAARP steering focus to promoting the tinfoil.
I don't think the gub'ment 'made' Katrina a force 5...but it's an unanswered question to me whether they took advantage of the situation and blew the levee with simple explosives. I have an open mind on that one way or the other, but I'd like to see the reports on witness accounts of hearing a series of explosions followed up. |
Here is a link to a app that can recover lost files, I have used the app and it works great.
http://www.recovermyfiles.com/
Katrina is interesting, I have not done the research enough to conclusively understand it, but will one day embark on such research.
But on the face it looks like typical Bush era destruction op, for reasons we all understand. |
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Ormond
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Thanks for the recovery link, Zak. Unfortunately the controller on that drive failed so the drive itself was trashed. But the info I'd saved was mainly bookmarks of stories that were running Aug-Oct 2005. What's really been missing wasn't on my drive, but news media followup on certain unprecedented circumstances.
I'll list the things I made note of, as I recall. Resolving these will require a lot of in depth research.
1. The hurricane had passed when the 17th street levee broke. Monday night. The hurricane struck on Saturday. The city was already flooded, of course, but witnesses said it was the breach of this levee that did the rest.
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New Orleans Times Picayune
A large section of the vital 17th Street Canal levee, where it connects to the brand new "hurricane proof" Old Hammond Highway bridge, gave way late Monday morning in Bucktown after Katrina's fiercest winds were well north. The breach sent a churning sea of water from Lake Pontchartrain coursing across Lakeview and into Mid-City, Carrollton, Gentilly, City Park and neighborhoods farther south and east. |
Levees do break. Of interest to followup to me has been a 17th street resident said in a Democracy Now audio interview, that she heard a series of explosions from the levee direction, then saw the water surge 'like a tidal wave' and this is what quickley raised water level to 20 feet, swamping the 9th ward and trapping people in their attics to drown.
I've never heard any followup on that.
2. Uprecedented new handling of a hurricane disaster by the Federal government:
There have been devastating hurricanes on the Gulf and southeast coasts before. I grew up in Florida and experienced two hurricanes, and remember how the emergency was normally handled by local and Federal government. For the last fifty years, local mayors, sheriff's departments would handle local control--the governor would request use of the state's National Guard. The local Guard's role was to assist local government's efforts in things like sand bagging, rescue, and protecting property (stores, banks, homes, etc) from looters.
With hurricane Katrina, we witnessed a new emergency system where it appears that FEMA was given command over local government decisions.
The Louisiana National Guard, ostensibly deployed in Iraq, was not used but instead the Texas Guard. And they didn't show up for three days or longer. Reports from local sherrif's and city workers at the time said the black uniformed armed mercinaries (Blackwater Security) prevented them from doing their job. Denial at gunpoint of such things as turning on backup generators to power the drainage pump stations, interfering with rescue operations, etc.
There was every implication that traditional handling of the emergency was iinterfered with and stalled by the Federal government. This was blamed on the Director of FEMA--who Bush told 'you've done a great job' and then fired him. One the man was fired, the case was closed by MSM as far as I can tell.
We also recall that MSM blamed and mocked the victims--focusing on the mayem at the sports dome. To my memory of hurricanes that was unprecedented.
The official 'fall guys' were also the Governor, the Mayor of New Orleans, and the Director (Brown) of FEMA.
Now, the result of the hurricane is of interest. Residents of decimated areas from New Orleans to Gulfport Mississippi, 200 miles of coast, were wisked away and scattered in towns all over the US, put up in motels, then apartments, most unable to afford to return to deal with property. The way it came down was, that those who were unable to show proof that they could afford to rebuild had their real estate condemned and seized under eminent domain. These were people who held deeds on land across the coast, but were too poor to hold onto their deeds under the circumstances.
New Orleans and Gulfport have been completely re-planned as a strip of casinos, hotels, and new high buck beachfront real estate. ie, a new Republican playground. A new version of New Orleans in a sort of Disneyworld format is resulting.
That leaves us only with a feeling that something 'fishy' went on with this disaster. Whether it's the 'bungled' war in Iraq, or the 'bungled' domestic disaster, these supposed nincompoops come out on top with billions in new contracts for rebuilding, immense new real estate grabs--all on top of the respective piles of body bags and the surviving refugees get blamed and ridiculed by the MSM.
With Katrina, it does all go back to taking renewed close look at that levee.
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I spent about 10-days in Bay St Louis, MS (where west side of eye landed) starting
approximately 1-week after Katrina hit. The energy of that storm must have
been incredible, as I personally witnessed miles of coastline that were
completely and totally devastated.
For example, at ground zero there was nothing left, and I mean "nothing" -
no cars, no remnants of homes, no trees, no trash, no debris, no trees,
just cleared landscape. I had to travel about 2-3 miles inland before I
came upon the railroad tracks, which had been on a mound approximately
8-feet high..... the mound had almost entirely washed away and the
railroad tracks were like pretzels. I don't really have words for
it. And, unfortunately the video footage that I saw did not show these
areas, as the worst areas had nothing really to show on TV. It wasn't like
there were ruined homes and cars piled on top of each other, everything
was just gone. And from the pics I had seen, this was one of the
wealthiest neighborhoods in MS, with Million dollar homes lining the
beautiful bay.
I have yet to research claims of levy explosions in New Orleans, but if
the storm hit downtown New Orleans with 75% of the energy that hit Bay
St. Louis, then I can see how natural forces resulted in levy failure.
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| Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 5:46 pm Post subject: Levees |
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I watched the Spike Lee documentary on Katrina. Quite good, 4 hours long! A bunch of the people interviewed said they heard explosions as well...
I'd recommend checking out Dave McGowan articles on Katrina. Covers a lot of different angles on the whole sordid situation.
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http://www.davesweb.cnchost.com/nwsltr74.html
Let’s assume, for the sake of argument – and because you wouldn’t be visiting this website if you weren’t seeking out ‘conspiracy theories' – that everything that happened in post-Katrina New Orleans happened because powerful actors wanted it to happen: the breaching of the levees, the flooding of selected portions of the city, the suppression of any and all relief efforts, the establishment of a pretext for a military response through the introduction of fraudulent ‘news’ stories, and the relocation by force of the residents of New Orleans. What then would be the motivation for these actions? I can think of at least three motives:
1. To acclimate the American people to the presence of armed troops on American soil, which will soon be a familiar sight not just in southern Louisiana, but throughout the country. Even as you read this, the White House and Congress are hard at work drafting legislation and executive orders that will normalize the use of combat personnel to deal with any contrived situation.
2. To allow the city of New Orleans to be rebuilt and refashioned into what our fearless leaders no doubt see as a city of the future – a city that is much richer, and much whiter, than the city that stood before.
3. To solidify control over the Gulf Coast oil and gas industry, since a key goal of the perpetrators of the ‘Peak Oil’ charade, as I’ve noted before, is to achieve total control over all the world’s major oil and gas taps. |
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Now we're talkin'. Thanks for the daveweb link, MarkAttack.
The following piece on the failure of the city waterpumps is crucial.
Yes, it's never been investigated or explained. The daily radio reports during the disaster and aftermath concur with the following that the pumps were intact after the hurricane passed. Next we hear Monday night that they 17th street levee broke and all hell broke loose.. A few days later I heard on Dem Now about the city employees and sheriff's deputies who were going to activate backup generators to run the pumps were turned away by FEMA escorted by armed Blackwater Security at gunpoint. That sure does indicate that the decision to not restore power to the pumps came from Federal authority.
| Quote: | Built in the early 1900s, New Orleans’ pumping system is composed of 23 pumping stations that house a combined 140 pumps. Though nearly a century old, these pumps remain, to this day, the largest and most powerful of their kind in the world. And, since they were built before America became a society that reveres disposability, the pumps are remarkably reliable. Right up until the day that Katrina came ashore, every one of those 140 pumps were fully operational. But that all changed very quickly in the aftermath of the storm, when, for reasons that have never been adequately explained – and never will be, because no one in government or the media will ever bother to ask – the decision was made to shut the system down.
The explanation that was given was that, since the major levee breaches lay between the pumping stations and Lake Pontchartrain, the pumps were serving no purpose other than to circulate the water right back through the breaches. It was not the case, however, that all 23 of the stations were situated in that manner, and yet all of them were apparently shut down. And all of the stations, while they were running, were serving at least one crucial function: keeping the pumping stations themselves from being flooded.
Once the pumps were shut down, the stations were promptly, and quite predictably, submerged, thus doing major damage to all of the pumps’ electrical components. With one incredibly stupid, or one incredibly malicious act, a system that had performed nearly flawlessly for almost a century was rendered completely inoperable. Before repairs could even be attempted, workers were faced with the uniquely challenging task of pumping out the pumping stations. The damage was so extensive that two weeks after Katrina hit New Orleans, over half of the stations still had no running pumps. |
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Lieberman protester removed from Katrina hearings
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17tsDRmBOiw
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Protestor Demands Probe Of White House Over Katrina, Lieberman Responds He Won’t ‘Play Gotcha Anymore’
Yesterday, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, chaired by Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-CT), held a field hearing in New Orleans to discuss the “red tape and bureaucracy hindering Louisiana’s economic recovery from hurricanes Katrina and Rita.” At the outset of the hearing, a protestor called for investigating the White House. Here’s how CNN described the scene:
Susan Roesgen, CNN Correspondent: A protester, a well-dressed young man — he was wearing a white dress shirt and a tie. No one suspected anything was amiss. He stood up. He was holding a hand-lettered piece of cloth that said, “Probe the White House.”
He was shouting, shouting at the senators, as you see here. … But what this person was protesting was he said that Senator Lieberman needs to do more and should do more to lead a federal investigation of the White House response to Hurricane Katrina similar to the 9/11 Commission hearings. He said that has not been done, he wants that to be done.
There are still key questions left unanswered about the administration’s disaster response. Former FEMA chief Michael Brown said that in a still-secret videoconference shortly after Katrina hit New Orleans, he warned presidential aides that 90 percent of the city was being “displaced,” but was greeted with “deafening silence.” Brown also suggested “party politics played a role” in White House reactions to the aftermath of Katrina.
When he was running for re-election, Lieberman pledged to investigate the White House’s conduct in the aftermath of Katrina. But, Newsweek recently reported:
Sen. Joe Lieberman, the only Democrat to endorse President Bush’s new plan for Iraq, has quietly backed away from his pre-election demands that the White House turn over potentially embarrassing documents relating to its handling of the Hurricane Katrina disaster in New Orleans.
Lieberman said he was not interested in “looking back, and assigning blame would be a waste of Congress’ time.” Responding to yesterday’s protestor, Lieberman said, “We don’t want to play ‘gotcha’ anymore.”
Posted by Faiz January 30, 2007 9:50 am
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/01/30/lieberman-katrina/ |
Here's the protesters website:
http://blanketneworleans.org/
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ABC News Report from September 5, 2005
JOE EDWARDS, JR., 9TH WARD RESIDENT: I heard something go BOOM!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJEclXn8SB8
| Quote: | ABC World News Tonight carried a report which contained an interview with a local, who described how a flloating barge had rammed the levee. The man seemed convined that the levee was purposefully broken. A transcript of which has appeared on the net:
David Muir: “Was it solely the water that broke the levee? Or was it the force of this barge that now sits where homes once did? Joe Edwards says neither. People are so bitter, so disenfranchised in this neighborhood, they actually think the city did it, blowing up the levee to save richer neighborhoods, like the French Quarter.”
Muir to Edwards as they stand on a bridge: “So you're convinced-”
Edwards: “I knows it happened.”
Muir: “-that they broke the levee on purpose?”
Edwards: “They blew it.”
Muir: “New Orleans’ Mayor says there's no credence to this.”
Mayor Ray Nagin: “That storm was so powerful and it pushed so much water -- there's no way anyone could have calculated -- would dynamite the levee to have the kind of impact to save the French Quarter.”
Muir concluded: “An LSU expert who looked at the video today, says that while the barge may have caused it, it was most likely the sheer force of the water that brought the levee, along the lower 9th ward, down.”
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http://infowars.com/articles/new_orleans/locals_believe_levees_blown_intentionally.htm
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AHH.....THERE YA GO!
Great find Stallion. That's what was coming out at the time, and was never followed up. All the local witnesses said the same thing.
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Thanks to all who contributed so far.
I felt at the time that with PsyOp effects similar to that seen in the
Tsunami, the timing had clear benefits at a pivotal point in the Iraq
invasion.
I'd also like to spotlight the comments by none other than Barak Obama
at the Katrina hearing (see video posted by Stallion4). I've written that
another Psyop aspect was the deliberate stampeding of the black vote
into the waiting arms of the Democrats --part of the grand engineered
shift in the political sands.
As Ormond referred to, there was a lot of tinfoil going around at the time
from the Fakes. And the talk of the levee being blasted was invariably
linked to the notion of sacrificing the poor areas. Classic limited hangout
to conceal the pre-planned nature of the events.
Deliberate sabotage of relief efforts and blocking of emergency response.
That a no-brainer. Class-based economic relandscaping and the usual
Haliburton-style "rebuilding" is another no-brainer. MO: destroy shit and
hand out fat contracts. Bombs were used in Iraq and water used in NO.
The profits work out much the same.
As with 9/11, in this case I don't doubt a MIHOP. Suitable storms were
inevitable, and some creative maximization of storm surge by the
Armt Corps, along with strategic booby-trapping of the "refurbished"
levee at the time the work was done --well in advance of hurricane
season-- could achieve much of the desired effect.
After all, NO had survived Katrina. Up until the levees went, that is.
HAARP is a sick joke with fundamental ignorance of real physics.
However, just because Bearden is another joke does not mean that
so-called scalar weapons are an impossibility.
Nevertheless there are less esoteric weather manipulation technologies
which fit into the public stated military goal of weather control. A "goal"
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New Orleans will be very difficult to bust. 911 was a blatant “eyes wide shut” op. The aspect of Katrina that will be difficult next to impossible to catch the op is the levee breach that was done in the dark, so unless one of those engineers comes forward we probably never will know what happened.
What is significant with Katrina is the aftermath and the criminal neglect of the citizens by the government. This is defiantly an op of some sort as described by many here, that goes not only to rooting out the undesirables in the urban center on the city, but also to the reality that this government cares little about Afro American citizens.
This is telling black people” we don’t give a shit about you. This treatment along with the Mexican immigrants being let in to take the jobs of the black poor should tell us something about the elite agenda concerning minorities.
It is interesting that Bush is in essence all for this illegal immigration something that goes against the grain of his supposed conservative agenda. The fact of the matter is that this immigration thing is another indication that Bush is working directly with the NWO elites, and never really was a conservative, or even Republican for that matter.
Katrina, immigration, this Obama phenomenon should tell African Americans that:
You are still on the top of the list, of the:
SACRIFICE AGENDA! |
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MYSTIFICATION 101
That storm was so powerful and it pushed so much water -- there's no way anyone could have calculated
yet several groups DID calculate the disaster, including a local university who used to have responsibility for recommendations, until that contract was given away -- to a Bush supporter (I'm not suggesting it's limited to crony capitalism either.)
echoes:
... a -- nobody in our government, at least, and I don't think the prior government, could envision flying airplanes into buildings on such a massive scale. ...
I don't think anybody could have predicted that these people would take an airplane and slam it into the World Trade Center, take another one and slam it into the Pentagon; that they would try to use an airplane as a missile, a hijacked airplane as a missile. |
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| Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 2:12 am Post subject: Katrina victims sue U.S. over failed floodwalls |
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| Quote: | Katrina victims sue U.S. over failed floodwalls
08 Feb 2007 23:33:57 GMT By Russell McCulley
NEW ORLEANS, Feb 8 (Reuters) - Victims of some of the worst flooding after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans sued the federal government on Thursday charging negligence in the construction and maintenance of floodwalls on the 17th Street Canal.
The lawsuit, which seeks class-action status and unspecified damages, says the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers issued a permit in 1984 allowing the canal to be dredged to improve drainage in low-lying areas despite warnings it would make floodwalls along the canal less stable.
Floodwalls along the 17th Street Canal collapsed shortly after Katrina struck the city Aug. 29, 2005, inundating several square miles (kilometres) of the city with roof-deep water. The adjacent Lakeview neighborhood was one of the hardest hit.
According to the lawsuit filed in federal court in New Orleans, the collapsed floodwalls contributed to 80 percent of the flooding of New Orleans and caused at least 588 of the nearly 1,300 deaths attributed to the storm.
A representative for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers could not immediately be reached for comment.
Last week, U.S. District Judge Stanwood Duval in New Orleans, ruled that the agency could be sued for damages in another case involving the failure of levees on the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet canal.
The Corps had argued that federal law granted the agency immunity from legal action arising from the failure of federally authorized flood control projects.
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