Engineers to Test Flood Defenses In New Orleans
Questions Surround Failure During Katrina
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, August 12, 2007; Page A03
NEW ORLEANS -- A $3 million experiment by the Army Corps of Engineers this week will simulate the conditions that caused critical levee failures during Hurricane Katrina, leading to disastrous flooding.
In the test, engineers will gradually pump water into a section of the London Avenue Canal, one of two canals whose flood walls toppled in the storm two years ago, allowing in most of the inundation in the main part of the city.
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