Levee is leaking -17th Street Canal-could collaspe during this Hurricane season
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AP: New Orleans levee leaking again; vulnerable to storm
With the year's official hurricane season set to start June 1, The Associated Press reports that a New Orleans levee that broke during Katrina and was repaired is leaking again — because the city is built on soft ground.
Seepage has occurred at the 17th Street Canal in the Lakeview district, and engineers say the problem afflicts other levess, which could fail during a storm.
The Army Corps of Engineers is downplaying the seepage but analyzing the wet spots.
AP writes:
The Army Corps of Engineers has spent about $4 billion so far of the $14 billion set aside by Congress to repair and upgrade the metropolitan area's hundreds of miles of levees by 2011. Some outside experts said the leak could mean that billions more will be needed and that some of the work already completed may need to be redone.
"It is all based on a 30-year-old defunct model of thinking, and it means that when they wake up to this one — really — our cost is going to increase significantly," said Bob Bea, a civil engineer at the University of California at Berkeley.
The Army Corps of Engineers disputed the experts' dire assessment. The agency said it is taking the risk of seepage into account and rebuilding the levees with an adequate margin of safety.
"It's always a potential, so it is a design component for every feature," said Walter Baumy, the chief corps engineer in New Orleans.
Bea predicts a 40% chance that the 17th Street Canal would collapse if water rises 6 feet above sea level; it rose 7 feet when Hurricane Katrina hit in August 2005.
The chief of the Army Corps' technical-support branch in New Orleans says the problem isn't serious.
"I personally do not at all believe that this little wet spot is anything that is going to cause a breach or a failure of any kind," said Donald Jolissaint, noting that a new floodgate could be used to stop the flow of water into the canal and reduce pressure on the levee.
AP: New Orleans levee leaking again; vulnerable to storm
With the year's official hurricane season set to start June 1, The Associated Press reports that a New Orleans levee that broke during Katrina and was repaired is leaking again — because the city is built on soft ground.
Seepage has occurred at the 17th Street Canal in the Lakeview district, and engineers say the problem afflicts other levess, which could fail during a storm.
The Army Corps of Engineers is downplaying the seepage but analyzing the wet spots.
AP writes:
The Army Corps of Engineers has spent about $4 billion so far of the $14 billion set aside by Congress to repair and upgrade the metropolitan area's hundreds of miles of levees by 2011. Some outside experts said the leak could mean that billions more will be needed and that some of the work already completed may need to be redone.
"It is all based on a 30-year-old defunct model of thinking, and it means that when they wake up to this one — really — our cost is going to increase significantly," said Bob Bea, a civil engineer at the University of California at Berkeley.
The Army Corps of Engineers disputed the experts' dire assessment. The agency said it is taking the risk of seepage into account and rebuilding the levees with an adequate margin of safety.
"It's always a potential, so it is a design component for every feature," said Walter Baumy, the chief corps engineer in New Orleans.
Bea predicts a 40% chance that the 17th Street Canal would collapse if water rises 6 feet above sea level; it rose 7 feet when Hurricane Katrina hit in August 2005.
The chief of the Army Corps' technical-support branch in New Orleans says the problem isn't serious.
"I personally do not at all believe that this little wet spot is anything that is going to cause a breach or a failure of any kind," said Donald Jolissaint, noting that a new floodgate could be used to stop the flow of water into the canal and reduce pressure on the levee.
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The house we worked in was over on Woodlawn Pl a couple blocks away by the railroad track. I sure hope it dosen't flood again.
Tons of computer animations explaining exactly the detailed infrastructure of the entire city. I can't remember the name of it but it was a solid 9/10.
Bad scene in the design of that place.. Ponchartrain is no friend to those peoples.
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over specific principles, goals, and policies.
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Verona??? it's all surmountable
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Wembley? We all believe!
Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
Chicago 07? And love
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Had I not found this love with you