Strengthening of Infrastructure
U.S. defense force Corps repaired and restored 220 miles of floodwalls and levees since September 2005. With a few exceptions, the New Orleans hurricane guard system is in equal or better condition than it was when Katrina hit. For example, levees and flood walls have been armored to protect against corrosion from possible overtopping in several areas, and pumping stations are being hurricane proofed. Floodgates have been added at the outfall canal to protect against hurricane surge and a tree cutting program on existing levees for protection is ongoing.
This job consisted of 59 separate creation projects, carried out by 26 Corps contractors 90% of them local. The company continues to construct stronger protection for New Orleans by engineering, constructing and improving hurricane and flood protection infrastructure to a 100 year protection level. This work includes advanced levees, stronger floodwalls and larger interior drainage capacity, including:
Replacing failed I Wall intend floodwalls with stronger Twall or L wall design floodwalls.
Reinforce the most vulnerable unharmed I Walls and the surge protection closures.
In order to look into the levee breakage and prevent them from reoccurring, the company commissioned an Interagency Performance Evaluation Task Force (IPET) composed of 150 subject matter expert from government, academia and industry to analyze the effects of Hurricane Katrina on the hurricane protection system and to increase a list of lessons learned which are leading to state of the art improvements in the engineering of a comprehensive hurricane protection system.
IPET findings and recommendations have been frequently provided to the Corps' task force since November 2005 and have been used to construct levee repairs stronger and better. IPET findings helped the company in the assessment of weaknesses in the protection system and IPET results will also be used in plan guidance to build future protection projects.
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your thoughts of illegal immigrants using the rebuilding of New Orleans as a way to come into the U.S?
Since Hurricane Katrina,New Orleans has seen a growth in Illegal immigrants entering the city,using the rebuilding process as a way to get into the country.New Orleanians are not being giving the chance to rebuild their own city, instead greedy contractors are using Illegal Mexican workers,and paying them as little as 50 dollars a day and sometimes not at all to do the job that the people of the city are quite capable of doing if only giving the chance. Not only are our jobs in jeopardy so are our homes instead of fixing up the homes and allowing people to return they are renting them out to Mexicans,and now over 7,000 people have been evicted out of the apartments in Houston,which is not Houston's fault because it is our local government fault that these people haven't returned home yet.and yet our city officals are complaining about whether the city will be black or white when at the rate it's going it won't be either one.it isn't right they are using our mishap as their gain
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is there a site where I can look up lost animals from Hurricane Katrina/New Orleans?
New Orleans Hurricane Katrina Lost pets
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Hurricane Katrina/New Orleans anniversary, aren't the Neocons being killed off by the News media tonight?
I beleive this is the finish off for the Neocons and George Bush, don't you agree America?
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Why is the term smite associated with a loving God?
The God who kicked Eve and Adam out of the Garden of Paradise for eating a non-organic apple; the God who caused a flood larger than Hurricane Katrina/New Orleans; the God who reigns over the Republican Party?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godless:_The_Church_of_Liberalism
http://www.answers.com/topic/smite
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is new orleans safe/a nice place to live?
after hurricane katrina, new orleans has changed a lot. i am thinking of possibly moving to new orleans in 2009 for college. would this be a wise move? or would it be better to just avoid the city?
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